Ernst Tugendhat 1930 – 2023

Ernst Tugendhat was a Czech-born German philosopher and one of the most important twentieth-century bridges between analytic and continental traditions. Educated at Stanford and Tubingen and a former pupil of Heidegger, he underwent a deliberate turn to analytic philosophy of language in mid-career and produced his foundational Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination and Traditional and Analytical Philosophy, in which the analytic philosophy of language is brought to bear on the characteristic questions of the German philosophical tradition. His later writings on ethics, mysticism, and anthropology continued to engage both traditions with rigor and warmth.