Klaus Vieweg

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Klaus Vieweg (* August 2, 1953 in Steinach) is a German philosopher, internationally renowned Hegel scholar and biographer. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Jena. [1] [2] In 2022 Vieweg made a massive 4,000 pages discovery of previously undocumented Hegel lectures that could open up new perspectives for Hegel research. [3]

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Klaus Vieweg studied philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the Humboldt University in East Berlin in the 1970s. He specializes in German idealism, the history and theory of skepticism and fundamental questions of a philosophy of freedom. At the center of his research is the attempt to demonstrate the topicality of Hegel's philosophy as a thinking of freedom. The main contributions to this are the articles on Hegel's strategy of including the core ideas of philosophical skepticism as the 'free' side of philosophy, an overall interpretation of one of Hegel's most influential work, the Eelements of the Philosophy of Right, and a new biography of Hegel. He is currently working on outlines for a new history of philosophy. Klaus Vieweg's research and teaching visits have taken him to the University of Washington in Seattle, the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and Erlangen, the Hegel Archive at Ruhr University Bochum (Hegel Archive), Charles University in Prague, the University of Pisa, the Universities of Siena and Turin, the University of Vienna, Monash University in Melbourne, Mexico City, Medellín, Naples, Tokyo, Kyoto, Rome, Fudan University and East China University in Shanghai. He has traveled to Chile several times and taught as Johann Gottfried Herder Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV, 2022) [4] and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago de Chile.

A number of Vieweg's books have been translated into several languages, including Korean and Portuguese as well as English, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.

Discovery of Hegel's transcripts

In 2022, Vieweg made a find of the century when he discovered 4,000 pages transcripts of previously unknown Hegel lectures in the library of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, which had been stored there for almost 200 years. These notes were written by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové, one of Hegel's students, between 1816 and 1818. They came from the estate of the theologian Friedrich Windischmann and had never been examined in detail by researchers. Vieweg had followed up on a tip from Bonn historian Willi Ferdinand Becker, who had pointed out Windischmann's still unexplored estate in an essay in 1988. [5] Vieweg looked at the material in the summer of 2022 and recognized its full significance. [6] The edition of the scripts can open up new perspectives for Hegel research, specially as compared with Hotho's transcriptions, which are so far the only source on Hegel's philosophy of art. [7]

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  1. Anne Günther: Archived (Date missing) at jenapolis.de (Error: unknown archive URL). In: Jenapolis, 7. Juni 2013.
  2. vCard. "Prof. Dr. Klaus Vieweg". Philosophische Fakultät (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  3. Tor, Sara (2022-11-29). "Manuscript treasure trove may offer fresh understanding of Hegel". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  4. "Pobreza y riqueza. Derecho de socorro y derecho de resistencia en Hegel". http://www.pucv.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-11.{{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  5. Willi Ferdinand Becker (1988). "Hegel und Bonn. Fundstücke einer Spurensuche. Ein – verspäteter – Beitrag zum 150. Todestag des Philosophen". Bonner Geschichtsblätter, Band 37 (in German). Bonner Heimat- und Geschichts-Verein BHGV. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  6. "Jahrhundertfund zu berühmtem Philosophen Hegel". www.uni-bamberg.de (in German). 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  7. "Jahrhundertfund zu Hegel in Münchner Diözesanbibliothek". www.katholisch.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-11.