Ernst Behler

Ernst Behler (born April 9, 1928 in Essen , † September 16, 1997 in Seattle ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Behler studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Mainz, Munich, Paris (Sorbonne) and Bonn. In 1951 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich at Alois Dempf Dr. phil. 1961 took place at the University of Bonn under Vinzenz Rüfner the habilitation in philosophy with the thesis The philosophical controversy about the eternity of the world in the 13th century . In this context he dealt with Avicenna , Al-Gazali, Averroes and Maimonides . He then taught as a private lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bonn . In 1965 he was appointed to the University of Washington . In 1976 he became chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle .

His research interests included Friedrich von Schlegel and early romanticism . He was the founder and editor of the Critical Friedrich Schlegel Edition. The seventh edition of his book Friedrich Schlegel in Self-Testimonies and Image Documents was published in 2007. His two books on irony are also well-known: Classical irony, romantic irony, tragic irony and irony and literary modernity . His wife Diana Behler, a student of Raymond Immerwahr, was also a professor of German and comparative literature. His son Constantin is a professor at Bothell University . Behler was friends with Jakob Baxa and Jean Grondin.

Publications

• Classic irony, romantic irony, tragic irony: on the origin of these terms , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1981 ISBN 3-534-05741-4
• Irony and literary modernity , Schöningh, Paderborn; Munich; Vienna; Zurich 1997 ISBN 3-506-70714-0
• Infinite perfectibility. European Romanticism and French Revolution , Paderborn: Schöningh (1989), 320 pp.
• Early Romanticism , de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-11-011888-2 (Göschen Collection 2807), introduction.
  • Reprint 2010: ISBN 978-3110118889
• The Schlegel brothers' magazines. A contribution to the history of German Romanticism , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 978-3534088393

See also

• Romantic irony

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Behler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Behler in the interview in the online archive "Austria am Wort" of the Austrian media library (Salzburg night studio)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.bothell.washington.edu/ias/faculty/cbehler
3. ↑ Cf. Jakob Baxa: Friedrich von Gentz. Vienna 1965. p. 5.