Arthur Liebert

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Arthur Liebert ; actually Arthur Levy (born November 10, 1878 in Berlin ; † November 5, 1946 there ) was a German philosopher . As a representative of the Marburg School , he belonged to Neo-Kantianism .

Life

After finishing school, he worked as a businessman for six years, before studying philosophy in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. He heard Wilhelm Dilthey , Paul Menzer , Friedrich Paulsen, Alois Riehl, Georg Simmel and Carl Stumpf and lecturers from other departments: Diels, Frey, Lasson, Pfleiderer, Roethe, Schmoller, Vierkant, von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf and Wölfflin.

Coming from a Jewish family, he converted to Protestant Christianity in 1905 and took the name Arthur Liebert. Under this name he published his first work in 1905, a translation and explanation of selected writings by the Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola . He did his doctorate in 1907 under Friedrich Paulsen and Alois Riehl on the Italian Platonist.

In 1910, Liebert became managing director of the Kant Society , founded by Hans Vaihinger in 1904 , which developed into one of the world's leading philosophical societies in the decades that followed, primarily through Liebert's (lecturing) activities.

Between 1919 and 1933 Liebert held philosophy lectures at the Berlin School of Management . In 1925 he became an associate professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

After the National Socialist “seizure of power” in 1933, Liebert was forced to retire from Wilhelm Stuckart , then State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Science. As a result, he had to go into exile in Belgrade that same year . There he founded the Society Philosophia and a magazine of the same name, which existed until 1939.

In 1939 Liebert moved to England and taught in Birmingham . There he joined the Free German Cultural Association and became director of the Free German University, which opened in July 1942 . After the end of the war, Liebert returned to Berlin in 1946. There he was a short time professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and dean of the pedagogical faculty.

Works (selection)

  • How is critical philosophy even possible? , Leipzig 1919
  • The spiritual crisis of the present , Berlin 1923
  • Myth and Culture , Berlin 1925
  • Philosophy in school , Charlottenburg 1927
  • Epistemology , Berlin 1932
  • The crisis of idealism , Zurich 1936
  • On the duty of philosophy in our time , Zurich 1938
  • The problem of validity , Berlin 1914

literature

  • Günther Wirth: On the "tournament ground" of intellectual disputes: Arthur Liebert and the Kant Society (1918-1948 / 49) . Ludwigsfelder Verlag-Haus, Ludwigsfelde 2004, ISBN 3-933022-22-3 .
  • Liebert, Arthur. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 39-45.

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personal data
SURNAME Liebert, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1946
Place of death Berlin