I was born in Romania in 1961.
My real name is Marcello-Silvestri Chelba. But this name has always seemed too pompous, too bright and too ringing for the gray world I lived in. That’s why I always preferred to recommend myself as Marcel Chelba.
I have been living in Tübingen with my family since 2014.
We have had German citizenship since January 2021.
I attended an art school for two years, graduated from an industrial school (where I had very good results in mathematics and physics) and graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Timisoara University.
I worked as a physics teacher for 4 years, as a librarian for two years, and as a graphic designer for 20 years in my own advertising company (Chemar Productions SRL).
The economic crisis that began in 2008 and unfair competition led us to bankruptcy.
My predilection for philosophy has been evident since I was a child.
When I was 15 I had already started reading Hegel. By the end of high school, my choice for philosophy was clear, but I didn’t go to a philosophy faculty precisely because I knew those faculties were overly ideologized (it was in the 1980s during the communist era). So I followed the Faculty of Physics, in the conviction that deepening a basic science will give me a better orientation tool in philosophy. In short, I followed physics out of philosophical interests.
I have consistently followed the answer to a few questions: How is scientific knowledge possible? How does it differ from philosophical knowledge? What do they have in common? Are Compatible? What is their relationship?
My thesis “Modeling in Physics and its Epistemological Significance” (1986) is partly my answer to these questions even today.
Then it followed:
1986, University of Timisoara, “The Idea of Negativity in Hegel’s Logic” (lecture).
1986, University of Iasi, “The Negativity of Predication in Hegel’s Logic” (lecture).
1989, Culture House in Suceava, “Hegel and modern physics” (lecture).
1989, Culture House in Suceava, “The Aesthetics of Life or Life as a Work of Art” (lecture).
My later study of aesthetics finally led me to Kant, where the term changed fundamentally. Nevertheless, the aesthetic of life sounds good together with the categorical imperative, so that a relationship of these terms on the basis of a common descent from the principle of absolute freedom seemed possible to me.
I asked myself the following question: whether the two aesthetics – transcendental aesthetics (the epistemological one) and traditional aesthetics (the theory of artistic beauty) – are compatible and whether they are somehow in a relationship of complementarity, in other words, if an “ontology of hermeneutics” and a “hermeneutics of ontology” are possible, and what is the basis for this possibility? If so, we would have a bridge that could pave the way for a huge philosophical synthesis.
I have been following this direction in philosophy for over forty years and I believe that this should be the central challenge of philosophy in the 21st century. Only by breaking down the dividing walls between ontology and hermeneutics can we expect something new in philosophy. This is the only way to get modern Western philosophy out of the “footnote” of classical Greek philosophy.
I consider this project a natural continuation of the aesthetic program of German philosophy and a return to the original philosophical program of ancient European culture, which, according to Harald Haarmann, was defined about two or three thousand years before the arrival of the Greeks on the Balkan Peninsula.
In 2004 I published a book: Marcel Chelba, Introducere critică. Despre posibilitatea metafizicii ca știință în filosofia critică kantiană (Critical Introduction, On the Possibility of Metaphysics as Science in Kant’s Critical Philosophy), Crates, 2004, in which I show, among other things, that the Kantian transcendental aesthetic is in fact the epistemological paradigm of modern science and that Kant has been confirmed, not refuted by modern science.
In the meantime I have published many other works on the Internet at Scribd and Academia.edu.
The projects I am currently working on are the most important, offering solutions to many classic problems.
Follow that blog. I will post here everything I have written in the last two decades and everything I will write from now on.
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