Friedrich Kainz

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Friedrich Kainz (born July 4, 1897 in Vienna ; † July 1, 1977 there ) was an Austrian philosopher of language , language psychologist , aesthetician and literary historian . He worked as a university professor in Vienna and was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

In 1914, Kainz passed the Matura at the Vienna State High School in the 8th district . From 1915 to 1918 he volunteered in the First World War in Russia, Belgium, Italy and France and was wounded twice. After his second wound, Kainz no longer had to fight and began studying philosophy , German , art history and musicology at the University of Vienna . In 1921 he received his doctorate on art history and aesthetics . This was followed by medical studies with a focus on psychiatric lectures, with Kainz specializing in language disorders. In addition to lifelong teaching at the Vienna Pedagogical Institute from 1923, Kainz also taught at various adult education centers in the 1920s.

Kainz completed his habilitation in aesthetics at the University of Vienna in 1925. He was initially a private lecturer at the University of Vienna , where in 1938 he became head of the Institute of Psychology and consequently the successor to Karl Bühler, who was arrested by the National Socialists . In 1939 Kainz was appointed associate professor for "philosophy with special consideration of aesthetics and linguistic psychology" and in 1950 professor for philosophy. Although he applied for membership in the NSDAP and renewed it several times, he was not accepted into the party. Nevertheless, Kainz associated with the numerous Jewish scholars and colleagues in his scientific field, including Charlotte Bühler ; Kainz wrote a foreword to the second, unchanged edition of her husband Karl Bühler's theory of language . After the Second World War, after Eduard Castle (until 1949), Kainz also headed the Institute for Theater Studies (until 1954), which was founded in 1943 as part of the National Socialist cultural policy under Baldur von Schirach , as the first full professor of the institute, Heinz Kindermann , was responsible for the Nazi regime. Prohibition Act 1945 had been relieved of his post, but headed the institute again from 1955 until his retirement in 1966. His pupils also include the future rabbi Meir Koffler , the philosopher Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik and the linguist Georg Schmidt-Rohr (1890–1945).

In 1961 Kainz was awarded the Wilhelm Hartel Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in 1967 with the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna and the Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna in gold and in 1977 with the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art . In 1978 he was posthumously awarded the Grillparzer Ring.

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Kainz made an early appearance with research into language psychology and was influenced by Wilhelm von Humboldt and Karl Bühler. He advocated an inductive methodology and assumed universal and unchangeable principles in the use of language. He became internationally known for his five-volume "Psychology of Language", whose central statements concern the concepts of speech and language action, language as a superstructure, the relationship between thought and language, as well as the expression of judgment, diction, articulation, abstractive relevance, language relativism and language seduction. In this work, Kainz also differentiates between the four I-functions of language , which can be seen as precursors of speech acts :

  • 1. Interactive language function
  • 2. imperative language function
  • 3. informative-indicative language function
  • 4. Interrogative language function

In his later works on Philosophical Etymology and the Seduction of Language, Kainz turned to a philosophy- critical language criticism . However, by following Humboldt's metaphor of the organic growth of the mind in language, he may have become the victim of language seduction himself. His literary psychological concept of enhancement is received in the metaphor theory. With Kainz the unity of philosophy and psychology in the study of linguistic phenomena came to an end. According to Gerhard Gelbmann, Kainz's works offer alternative approaches to neopositivism and analytical philosophy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AEIOU the cultural information system
  2. ^ Levelt, Willem JM (2013). A History of Psycholinguistics. The Pre-Chomskyan Era . Oxford: Oxford UP. Pp. 527 & 533-545.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Gelbmann, Erratum and Memorandum for his book from 2004 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 24 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sammelpunkt.philo.at
  4. ^ Karl Bühler, Language Theory: The Representation Function of Language, Fischer: Jena 1934, with a preface by Friedrich Kainz, 2nd, unchangeable. Ed., G. Fischer: Stuttgart 1965, reprint Lucius & Lucius: Stuttgart 1999
  5. ↑ Institute for Theater Studies, History ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tfm.univie.ac.at
  6. ↑ Institute for Theater Studies, 50 Years Institute for Theater Studies ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 29 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tfm.univie.ac.at
  7. ↑ Rabbi Meir Koffler
  8. ↑ Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik
  9. ↑ Georg Schmidt-Rohr (PDF; 132 kB)
  10. ↑ Prize winners of the Wilhelm Hartel Prize ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-97.oeaw.ac.at
  11. ↑ Kampitz, Peter (2003): Kainz, Friedrich. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 880-881.
  12. ↑ Harald Weinrich, Linguistics of Lies . CHBeck: Munich 2006, 10-11 on Kainz 'concept of language seduction
  13. ↑ Eckard Rolf, Metaphor Theories: Typology, Presentation, Bibliography . Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, New York 2005, 298 on the metaphor of Kainz's terminology
  14. ↑ Psychology of Language. Vol. 5.1. Stuttgart 1965
  15. ↑ B. Kienzle
  16. ↑ Max Black, The Metaphor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 124 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 138.232.99.40  
  17. ^ Research project Gerhard Gelbmann, The language-critical approach by Friedrich Kainz ( Memento of the original of February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sammelpunkt.philo.at

Fonts (selection)

  • The increase phenomenon as an artistic design principle. A literary psychological investigation (magazine for applied psychology, supplement 33), JA Barth: Leipzig 1924
  • History of German Literature : Vol. 2. From Klopstock to the exit d. Romance ; Vol. 3. From Goethe's death to the present , W. de Gruyter: Berlin 1929
  • Personalist aesthetics , JA Barth: Leipzig 1932
  • On the development of the stylistic terms of order in German. In: Journal for German Philology 61 (1936), Nachdr. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt 1967
  • The language aesthetics of Younger Romanticism. In: Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift 16 (1938) 219-257
  • About the feeling for language , Ohm: Berlin 1944
  • Psychology of Language (five volumes, the fifth volume in two volumes), Enke: Stuttgart 1941–1969, review by Otto Friedrich Bollnow (PDF; 70 kB), supplement to Anglia 54/55 (1943) 1–6
    • Vol. 1: Fundamentals of general language psychology , 1941, 3rd edition 1962
    • Vol. 2: Comparative Genetic Speech Psychology , 1943, 2nd, revised. 1960 edition
    • Vol. 3: Physiological psychology of language processes , 1954, 2nd edition 1965
    • Vol. 4: Special Language Psychology , 1956
    • Vol. 5: Psychology of Individual Languages , Part 1: 1965, Part 2: 1969
  • Introduction to Speech Psychology , A. Sexl-Verlag: Vienna 1946
  • Lectures on aesthetics . A. Sexl-Verlag: Vienna 1948
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Art , Bellaria-Verlag: Vienna 1948
  • Linguistic and linguistic pathology to the problem of linguistic mistakes. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Session Reports 230, Volume, 5th Vienna 1956
  • The language of animals: facts , Enke: Stuttgart 1961
  • Thinking and language. In: Manual of Psychology . Vol. I 2: Learning and Thinking , ed. R. Bergius, 1964
  • Richard Meister (obituary). In: Almanach d. Austrian Academy d. Sciences 114. (1964) 267-311
  • Dialectic and language. In: Studium Generale 21 (1968) 117–183
  • Philosophical etymology and historical semantics , Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-historical class, session reports 262, volume, 4. Vienna 1969, also: Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau 1969, review by A. Morpurgo Davies , in: The Classical Review (New Series) 22.1 (1972) 74-75, (online)
  • About the seduction of language in thinking. Experience and Thinking (Writings to Promote Relationships Between Philosophy and Individual Sciences, Volume 38). Duncker & Humblot: Berlin 1972
  • Language development in childhood and adolescence , E. Reinhardt: Munich 1964, 3rd edition 1973
  • Grillparzer as a thinker. The result of his work for the wisdom of the world and of life. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Session Reports 280, Volume 2. Vienna 1975
  • Main problems of the philosophy of culture. Following on from Richard Meister's writings on the philosophy of culture , publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1977

Literature (selection)

  • Blumenthal, Arthur L. Language and Psychology. Historical Aspects of Psycholinguistics . New York: Wiley & Sons, 1970.
  • DBE - German Biographical Encyclopedia (2006). Second, revised and expanded edition. Volume 5 Hitz - Kozub. Ed. Rudolf Vierhaus. Munich: Saur. P. 453.
  • Fischer, Kurt R. / Wimmer, Franz M. The spiritual connection. Philosophy and Politics at the University of Vienna 1930-1950 . Vienna: WUV - Universitätsverlag, 1993.
  • Gabriel, Leo . "Friedrich Kainz - 70 years". In: Wissenschaft und Weltbild 20.2 (1967). Pp. 82-83.
  • Gelbmann, Gerhard. Philosophy of Language and Psychology of Language. The language-critical approach of Friedrich Kainz (European university publications: series 20, philosophy, vol. 681). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004. Also erratum and memorandum (PDF; 24 kB).
  • Gipper, Helmut / Schmitter, Peter. Linguistics and Philosophy of Language in the Age of Romanticism. A contribution to the historiography of linguistics . Tübingen: Narr, 1979. In particular, pp. 134-137. Google book preview .
  • Heintel, Erich . "Obituary for Friedrich Kainz". In: Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1977. pp. 510–516.
  • Peter Kampitz: Kainz, Friedrich. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 880-881.
  • Levelt, Willem JM A History of Psycholinguistics. The Pre-Chomskyan Era. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. In particular the chapter “Friedrich Kainz”, pp. 533-545.
  • Schmied-Kowarzik, Wolfdietrich. “The philosophy of reality and its metaphysical borders. Walther Schmied-Kowarzik between Friedrich Jodl and Friedrich Kainz ”. In: Ed. By Michael Benedikt, Reinhold Knoll, Cornelius Zehetner, with the assistance of Endre Kiss. Repressed humanism - delayed enlightenment . Vol. V: In the shadow of totalitarianism. From philosophical empiricism to critical anthropology, philosophy in Austria (1920-1951) . Vienna: Facultas, 2005.
  • Schueller, Herbert M. "Friedrich Kainz as Aesthetician". In: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 20.1 (1961). Pp. 25-36.
  • Christian Tilitzki . German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . Diss. FU Berlin 1989/99. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2002. In particular, pp. 774–779. Google book preview
  • Willer, Stefan. Poetics of Etymology. Textures of Linguistic Knowledge in Romanticism . Dissertation Münster 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Kainz, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher of language, language psychologist, aesthetician and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1977
Place of death Vienna