Aron Gurwitsch

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Aron Gurwitsch (born January 17, 1901 in Vilnius , Vilnius Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † June 25, 1973 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was an American philosopher from Lithuania .

biography

The Gurwitsch family moved to Danzig in 1906 , where he graduated from high school in 1919. He then began studying philosophy and German literature in Berlin . In 1920 he moved to Frankfurt am Main to study medicine and mathematics , and later philosophy again. In 1928 he did his dissertation with Moritz Geiger in Göttingen . Until his emigration in 1933 he worked for the Prussian Ministry of Science and as an assistant to Moritz Geiger in Göttingen. He wrote regularly for the "Frankfurter Israelitische Gemeindeblatt".

Between 1933 and 1940 Gurwitsch taught at the Sorbonne in Paris . During this time he made the acquaintance of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty . Faced with the impending German invasion, he left Europe in 1940 and emigrated to the United States.

After spending two years as a visiting student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , he was hired as a physics lecturer at Harvard University . In 1947 he was visiting professor of mathematics at Wheaton College in Norton, and in 1948 assistant professor of mathematics at Brandeis University in Waltham . From 1951 he was an associate professor at Brandeis University.

In 1958 he returned to the University of Cologne as a visiting professor . A year later he was appointed Philosophy Professor in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the New School for Social Research in New York .

Since 1929 he was married to Alice Stern.

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Gurwitsch's main work is Théorie du champ de la conscience, published in 1957 (Eng. The Field of Consciousness). In this Gurwitsch combines aspects of phenomenology and Gestalt theory to form a theory of consciousness and perception.

Works (selection)

  • Phenomenology of the subject and the pure self (1928)
  • Théorie du champ de la conscience (Eng. The field of consciousness) (1957)
  • The concept of consciousness in Kant and Husserl (1964)
  • Leibniz: Philosophy of Panlogism (1974)
  • Human encounters in the milieu world (4th quarter 1931, habilitation thesis)

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personal data
SURNAME Gurwitsch, Aron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius , Vilnius Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1973
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland