Arnulf Zweig
Arnulf Zweig (born November 11, 1930 in Essen , † April 12, 2016 in New York City ) was an American philosopher from Germany.
Life
Zweig's Jewish family emigrated to the United States in 1936 and settled in Rochester, New York . In order to be able to make music in a youth orchestra, Zweig learned to play the bassoon . He studied philosophy at the University of Rochester . He was accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1952 . He did his doctoral studies at Yale University and with Donald Davidson at Stanford University . He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon for decades . He has taught as visiting professor at Harvard University , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University . For many years he was bassoonist in the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, and briefly also a music critic for a newspaper in Eugene (Oregon) . In 1996 he returned to the east coast . He held teaching positions at the City University of New York and Baruch College .
Her marriage to Phyllis Zweig had a daughter and a son - Rebecca Rozman and Jonathan Zweig. The grandchildren are Samuel Rozman and Ira Zweig. His second wife, Leah Rose Jacobs, gave birth to a stepson and two granddaughters.
Zweig dealt with Immanuel Kant all his life . His translations of Kant's correspondence have been published by the University of Chicago Press and Cambridge University Press . With Thomas E. Hill he translated and commented on Kant's Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals , Oxford University Press .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zweig, Arnulf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2016 |
| Place of death | New York City |