Adolf Reinach

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Adolf Reinach (born December 23, 1883 in Mainz , † November 16, 1917 near Diksmuide , Belgium ) was a German philosopher , phenomenologist, philosopher of language and legal theorist.

Life

During his school days in Mainz, Reinach became interested in Plato . In 1901 he began studying psychology and philosophy in Munich . He studied with Theodor Lipps and became a member of the Lipps Circle (other members are Moritz Geiger , Otto Selz , Aloys Fischer and Johannes Daubert ). From 1903 he studied the works of Edmund Husserl .

In 1904 he received his doctorate from Lipps on the concept of causes in current criminal law . He continued his studies in Munich in order to obtain a law degree. But he decided to go to Göttingen for a semester to study with Husserl.

In 1906/07 he went to Tübingen , where he studied with the legal theorist Ernst Beling . With the support of Husserl, Reinach was able to complete his habilitation in Göttingen in 1909. In 1912 Adolf Reinach, Moritz Geiger and Alexander Pfänder founded the “Yearbook of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research”, of which Husserl was the editor.

Adolf Reinach married the physicist Anna Stettenheimer on September 14, 1912 in Mainz . Together with her, he was baptized into the Protestant church in Göttingen in 1916.

In addition to his work in phenomenology and general philosophy, Reinach, long before J. L. Austin , the speech act theory developed. His work was based on Husserl's analysis of the meaning in the logical investigations and Daubert's critique of the same. Reinach's work, the a priori foundations of civil law, was the first systematic treatment of speech acts. Pfänder conducted research on a similar topic at the same time.

After the publication of Husserl's ideas in 1913, quite a few phenomenologists took a critical stance on Husserl's new theories and his turn to idealism and transcendental phenomenology. A group of phenomenologists (Reinach, Daubert) remained connected to Husserl's early work and above all to his logical investigations . This direction is called Realistic Phenomenology and belongs to the philosophical basic direction of Realism .

At the beginning of the First World War , Reinach joined the army as a one-year volunteer . On November 16, 1917, he fell as a lieutenant in the reserve near Diksmuide in Belgium.

Reinach influenced younger phenomenologists such as Wilhelm Schapp , Dietrich von Hildebrand , Alexandre Koyré and Edith Stein while he was mainly influenced by Edmund Husserl but also by Anton Marty and Johannes Daubert.

Fonts (selection)

Essays
  • William James and Pragmatism . In: World and Knowledge. Hannoversche Blätter für Kunst, Literatur und Leben , Vol. 198 (1910), pp. 45–65.
  • Kant's conception of the Humean problem . In: Journal for Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism , Vol. 141 (1911), pp. 176-209.
  • The supreme rules of reasoning in Kant . In: Kant-Studien , Vol. 16 (1911), pp. 214-233, ISSN  0022-8877
  • On the theory of negative judgment . In: Alexander Pfänder (Ed.): Munich Philosophical Treatises. Festschrift for Theodor Lipps . JA Barth Verlag, Leipzig 1911, pp. 196-254.
  • The consideration. Their ethical and legal significance I . In: Journal for Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism , Vol. 148 (1912), pp. 181–196.
  • The consideration. Their ethical and legal significance II . In: Journal for Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism , Vol. 149 (1913), pp. 30–58.
  • Paul Natorp's “General Psychology According to a Critical Method” . In: Göttingische Gelehre Werbung , Vol. 176 (1914), Issue 4, pp. 193-214, ISSN  0017-1549 .
Monographs
  • About the concept of cause in current criminal law . Verlag JA Barth, Leipzig 1905, (also dissertation, University of Munich 1905).
  • On the phenomenology of law. The a priori foundations of civil law . Verlag VDM Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-0761-8 (reprint of the Munich 1953 edition).
Work edition
  • Karl Schuhmann (ed.): Complete works. Text-critical edition in two volumes . Philosophia-Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88405-015-X .
  1. The works . 1989. XVIII, 611 pp.
  2. Commentary and text criticism . 1989, pp. 613-848.

literature

  • Armin Burkhardt : Social acts, speech acts and textile movements. A. Reinach's legal philosophy and modern linguistics (German linguistics; vol. 69). Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-484-31069-3 .
  • Karl Schumann, Barry Smith: Adolf Reinach. An Intellectual Biography . In: Kevin Mulligan (Ed.): Speech Act and Facts. Reinach and the Foundations of Realist Phenomenology (Primary Sources in Phenomenology; Vol. 1). Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1987, ISBN 90-247-3427-4 (esp. 1–27. (PDF; 175 kB)
  • Barry Smith: Towards a History of Speech Act Theory . In: Armin Burkhardt (Ed.): Speech Acts, Meanings and Intentions. Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle (Basics of Communication and Cognition). Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, pp. 29-61, ISBN 0-89925-357-1 (HTML) .
  • Pierfrancesco Stagi: L'Assoluto (1916-1917). Fenomenologia e religione in Adolf Reinach , in: Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica , No. 1, 2011, pp. 111–147 [1]
  • Pierfrancesco Stagi: La filosofia della religione di Adolf Reinach , Stamen, Roma 2015, 101 pp. ISBN 9788898697335 [2] .
Lexicon entries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. a. On the theory of speech acts
  2. ^ Extract from the German lists of losses (Preuss. 1036) of January 12, 1918, p. 22429
  3. ↑ first published under the title The a priori foundations of civil law in the yearbook for philosophy and phenomenological research , vol. 1 (1913), pp. 685-847.

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personal data
SURNAME Reinach, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, phenomenologist, philosopher of language and legal theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1917
Place of death near Diksmuide , Belgium