Erich Heintel

Erich Heintel (born March 29, 1912 in Vienna ; † November 25, 2000 in Schneeberg in Lower Austria ) was an Austrian professor of philosophy.

Life

After his doctorate (1936) and his habilitation (1939), he was scientifically active, worked for the army psychological personnel inspection office and became a member of the NSDAP on July 1, 1940. From 1952, Heintel worked as an associate professor and from 1960 to 1982 as a full professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna .

Gravestone at the Heiligenstadt cemetery in Vienna

Philosophical positions

Heintel sees philosophy as an ongoing principle science of European tradition (i.e. as philosophia perennis ). It must reflect the problem of presuppositions for all knowledge and cognition, from empirical research to theology. She must also always consider the meaning and limits of her own approach.

In Heintel's philosophy there is room for a “reconciliation” of ontological knowledge or substance metaphysics with modern transcendental philosophy , whereby the distinction between the horizons of understanding must be preserved. The human being in his unity is understood as an “existing transcendentality”. In this way the question of the concept of man becomes the internal organizational principle of all philosophical and theological studies.

The estate of Heintel is documented in 239 archive boxes in the Vienna University Archives. 1500 sound carriers with recordings of lectures were cataloged between 2005 and 2010; some of them are digitized to the extent of 420 hours. The estate is blocked until 2030; this block can be lifted for research matters. The digital copies and the sound carrier collection were handed over to the library of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna for long-term archiving in 2015 . The Heintel library was partly handed over to the University of Klagenfurt by his son and heir Peter Heintel .

Awards

• 1987 Prize of the City of Vienna for the humanities
• 1990 Science Prize from the State of Lower Austria
• March 14, 2012: Symposium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the 100th birthday of Erich Heintel in the conference room of the academy, with presentations by Hans-Dieter Klein , Herbert Pietschmann , Rudolf Langthaler , Hisaki Hashi and Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik .

Fonts

• Nietzsche's "system" in its basic terms. A principal investigation. Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1939.
• Vom Wesen des Gemüts (with a tribal appendix: Die “Gemüthaftigkeit” des Viennese), in: Wehrpsychologische Mitteilungen III.6, pp. 7–32, June 1941.
• Metabiology and Philosophy of Reality, in: Bios , Volume 16, 1944.
• The Vienna Circle and the Dialectic of Experience, 1949.
• Philosophy of language. In: Wolfgang Stammler (Ed.): Deutsche Philologie im Aufriss. Erich Schmidt, Berlin / Bielefeld / Munich 1951.
• Hegel and the analogia entis, Bonn 1958.
• Constitution of objects and linguistic worldview, 1959.
• The two labyrinths of philosophy. System-theoretical considerations on the fundamental philosophy of occidental thought, Volume 1, Vienna-Munich 1968.
• Outline of the dialectic. 1. Volume: Between Philosophy of Science and Theology, Darmstadt 1984.
• Outline of the dialectic. Volume 2: On the Logos of Dialectics and its Logic, Darmstadt 1984.
• The position of philosophy in the “Universitas Litterarum”, 1990.
• What can I know - what should I do - what can I hope for, 1990.
• Introduction to Philosophy of Language, 1991 (4th ed.)

Work edition

• Collected treatises , 9 vols., Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1988-2001, ISBN 978-3-7728-0914-9

Editorial activity

• Joh. Gottfr. Herder's philosophy of language . Selected Writings. (Ed.) Meiner, Philosophical Library Volume 248. Hamburg 1960.
• 1965–1982 tradition and abandonment series. Treatises on the history and systematics of European philosophy (XXII vol.)
• 1968 to 1986 Vienna Yearbook for Philosophy .

literature

• Hans-Dieter Klein and Johann Reikerstorfer (eds.): Philosophia perennis. Erich Heintel on his 80th birthday. 2 volumes, Frankfurt a. a., Lang 1993. ISBN 3-631-46498-3
• Herta Nagl-Docekal (ed.): Tradition and task. Festschrift for Erich Heintel on his 70th birthday. 2 volumes. Vienna, Braumüller 1982. ISBN 3-7003-0352-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Heintel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erich Heintel in the Historical Archive for Philosophy Very detailed, with a further link:
• On Erich Heintel's life's work.
• Archive recordings with Erich Heintel in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Leaman: The university philosophers of the "Ostmark". In: FORVM , Volume XLI, No. 481–484, issue April 1994, pp. 25–31; again in: Michael Benedikt , Reinhold Knoll, Cornelius Zehetner (ed.) and Endre Kiss (cooperation): Repressed Humanism - Delayed Enlightenment. Philosophy in Austria 1920–1951 , Vienna (WUV Facultas Verlag) Volume V, p. 1133 ff., Here p. 1143.
2. ^ Estate in the Vienna University Archives (accessed August 25, 2018).
3. ↑ Subtitle: Publications - Self-testimonials - Reports , Österr. Academy d. Wiss., Commission for Philosophy and Pedagogy, Vienna 1992 (updated reproduction in: H.-D. Klein and J. Reikerstorfer (eds.), Philosophia perennis, Part 2, Frankfurt / Main 1993, pp. 413–468). Revised and supplemented by Waltraud Heintel and Reinhard Hochhold in 2005.