René Gude received last year a medal from the hands of the Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan. Photo ANP / Evert Elzinga
René Gude, philosopher and until recently Thinker of the Fatherland, deceased yesterday at the age of 58. This confirms the International School of Philosophy (ISVW), for which he was ambassador, on request. He suffered for years from cancer and was terminally ill.
Gude, born in 1957 in Surabaya, studied social geography and philosophy in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Since the 90s, he was engaged in popularizing philosophy. He was until 2001 editor and publisher of Philosophy Magazine. In 2013, he succeeded Hans Achterhuis as Thinker of the Fatherland. Gude was himself succeeded by Marli Huijer last month, the first “Denkeres’ the Fatherland. Gude was in 2013 Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
In 2007, at Gude, then director of the ISVW, bone cancer detected. In 2011 he had to amputate his leg, but then were found in studies malignant spots on his lungs. He was operated up to four times in order to pick out the metastases. Although that seemed to go well, it was a tumor found in his lungs in March last year. Then it was “empty the bag of tricks”, said Gude himself last year in a big interview (€) with NRC Handelsblad.
Last September Gude made known that he was terminally ill and had not long to live. There were a few impressive and outspoken media appearances, including in the EO program Casket . Gude had special leave to make a one-legged chest. “I walked around for some time with the idea to make a one-legged coffin. The reason? That is said at the funeral: “He wants to be remembered” as he was. ” But it’s also a bit meant as a joke, “Gude said (€).
He also appeared Runs in The World By to talk about his impending death. He told me not to be afraid of death, but said it is a bit unfair:
“You must strive in life to find it, and just at that moment you are told that you die, you have to get back to practice to do away with. “
In January last year Gude was also a guest at Theo Maassen in 24 hours …
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