Georg Misch (philosopher)

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Georg Misch (born April 5, 1878 in Berlin , † June 10, 1965 in Göttingen ) was a German philosopher and historian .

Georg Misch. Signature 1959

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Misch finished his studies in Berlin in 1900 with a dissertation on The Philosophical Justification of Positivism in the Writings of D'Alembert and Turgot . On the basis of a prize assignment set by the Prussian Academy of Sciences in the same year , he submitted his first research results on a history of autobiography in 1904 , for which he received the main prize in 1905. In 1907 the first volume of his almost 4,000 printed pages of history of the autobiography , which he worked on until his death in 1965 and whose fourth and last volume was published posthumously in 1969, was published as a greatly expanded version of the first part . which is also eagerly discussed in literary studies . Misch's teacher and father-in-law Wilhelm Dilthey had already pointed out the philosophical “inestimability” of autobiographies because they are suitable for working out “precisely the general features of the ages” of human history. In accordance with Dilthey's concept of philosophy as “the self-reflection of life”, Misch's autobiography is a profound source of research on the history of philosophy. His magnum opus seeks to grasp the almost unlimited diversity of autobiographical literature in the universal historical context of the development of the human mind and the personality consciousness of mankind.

“Georg Misch was a philosopher and wanted to be.” This was explained programmatically by his student Josef König in a lecture on the first anniversary of Misch's death at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , because he was primarily famous as a historian of autobiography. In 1905, Misch completed his habilitation at Dilthey in Berlin. From 1911 he worked as an associate professor in Marburg . In 1916 he moved to Göttingen , where he initially taught philosophy as an associate professor and from 1919 as a full professor. In 1923 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1923/24 he held "Exercises on the theory of meaning ( hermeneutics )" with Hans Lipps . From 1927 to 1934 he gave four lectures on Logic and Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge . In doing so, Misch tried to create both a life-philosophical foundation of logic and an expansion of the field of logic by means of a genesis of logical phenomena from pre-linguistic and (everyday) linguistic expression behavior . His draft of a comprehensive theory of knowledge reflects the discussion at the time between Dilthey's philosophy of life, Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology and the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , which Misch also presented and critically in his book Philosophy of Life and Phenomenology , which was published in 1930 and "on higher orders" to which Gadamer remarked in retrospect in 1991: “Today I can hardly measure what, in those preparatory years, in which my own hermeneutic philosophy ... showed its first germs, the sowing contributed to Georg Misch in his great critical book In 1935, Misch was expelled from his teaching post by the National Socialist government for racial reasons . He emigrated to England and returned to Göttingen in 1946, where he continued his work on the history of autobiography as an emeritus until his death in 1965. Misch was married to Clara (née Dilthey ), their daughter Lore later married the physicist Felix Bloch .

Works

Books

  • History of the autobiography : The complete work comprises 4 volumes in 8 half-volumes and has been in the 4th edition since 1985, published by Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main in 1976, ISBN 3-87730-024-3 (Volume 1.1 of a total of 8 partial volumes):
    • Volume I: Antiquity . Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1907, 2nd edition. 1931; 3rd, greatly increased edition in 2 volumes:
      • First half. Franke, Bern / Munich 1949, 4th edition. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1976
      • Second half. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1950, 4th edition. 1974
    • Volume II: The Middle Ages: The Early Period
      • First half. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1955, 2nd edition. 1969, 3rd edition. 1988 at Klostermann
      • Second half. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1955, 2nd edition. 1970, 3rd edition. 1992 at Klostermann
    • Volume III: The Middle Ages: The High Middle Ages in the Beginning
      • First half. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1959, 2nd edition. 1976, 3rd edition. 1998 at Klostermann
      • Second half. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1962, 2nd edition. 1979
    • Volume IV:
      • First half: the high Middle Ages in completion. Edited from the estate by Leo Delfoss. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1967
      • Second half: From the Renaissance to the main autobiographical works of the 18th and 19th centuries. Edited from the estate in an arrangement by Bernd Neumann. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • The way to philosophy . Teubner Verlag, Berlin 1926, 2nd, greatly expanded edition Francke, Bern / Lehnen, Munich 1950
  • Philosophy of Life and Phenomenology . A discussion of the Dilthey direction with Heidegger and Husserl. F. Cohen Verlag, Bonn 1930, 2nd edition. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1931, 3rd edition. Teubner, Stuttgart 1967.
  • From Wilhelm Dilthey's circle of life and thoughts. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1947
  • Building logic on the foundation of the philosophy of life. Göttingen lectures on logic and introduction to the theory of knowledge. From the estate, ed. by Gudrun Kühne-Bertram and Frithjof Rodi . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-495-47777-2 .

Editions

  • Hermann Lotze : Logic. Three books on thinking, investigating and knowing (= system of philosophy. I). Leipzig 1912, 2nd edition. 1928. First and third book newly edited. by Gottfried Gabriel . 2 volumes, Hamburg 1989.
  • Hermann Lotze: Metaphysics. Three books of ontology, cosmology and psychology (= system of philosophy. II). Leipzig 1912.
  • Wilhelm Dilthey: The experience and the poetry. Lessing, Goethe, Novalis, Holderlin. 4th edition. Berlin 1913
  • Wilhelm Dilthey: Weltanschauung and analysis of man since the Renaissance and Reformation (= Ges. Schriften. Volume 2). Leipzig / Berlin 1914; 11th edition. Göttingen 1991.
  • Wilhelm Dilthey: The spiritual world. Introduction to the philosophy of life (= Ges. Schriften. Vol. 5 and 6) Leipzig / Berlin 1924. 8th edition. from Volume 5: Göttingen 1990. 7th edition. from Volume 6: Göttingen 1994
  • Wilhelm Dilthey: From German poetry and music. From studies on the history of the German spirit. Leipzig / Berlin 1933; 2nd Edition. Stuttgart / Göttingen 1957 (together with Herman Nohl )

literature

  • A “different” hermeneutics. Georg Misch on his 70th birthday. Festschrift from 1948. Ed. Michael Weingarten. transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-272-4 . This Festschrift was supposed to appear in 1948 under the editorship of Josef König and Bruno Snell , but it was not published due to the currency reform.
  • Dilthey yearbook for philosophy and history of the humanities. Volume 11 / 1997-98. Edited by Frithjof Rodi in conjunction with U. Dierse, K. Gründer, H.-U.Lessing, R. Makkreel, O. Pöggeler and G. Scholtz. Publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen. Thematic focus: The philosopher Georg Misch. Part I: In the context of phenomenology, fundamental ontology and logic. Contributions by Hans-Georg Gadamer , Gottfried Gabriel , Jean Grondin, Alexander Haardt, Matthias Jung, Guy van Kerckhoven, Gudrun Kühne-Betram, Giovanni Matteucci, Elisabeth Ströker and Claudius Strube. Document: Heidegger's first response to the criticism by Georg Misch, ISBN 3-525-30365-3 .
  • Dilthey Yearbook for Philosophy and History of the Humanities, Volume 12 / 1999–2000. Edited by Frithjof Rodi in conjunction with U. Dierse, K. Gründer, H.-U.Lessing, R. Makkreel, O. Pöggeler and G. Scholtz. Publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen. Thematic focus: The philosopher Georg Misch. Part II: Metaphysics, Philosophical Anthropology and History of Autobiography. Contributions by Jean Greisch , Friedrich Kümmel, Karl-Heinz Lembeck , Hans-Ulrich Lessing, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Käte Meyer-Drawe , Massimo Mezzanzanica, Ernst Wolfgang Orth and Otto Pöggeler. Documents: Edmund Husserl's marginal notes on Misch's philosophy of life and phenomenology. Heidegger's marginalia on Misch's examination of the phenomenological ontology. Bibliography Georg Misch. ISBN 3-525-30366-1 .
  • Otto Friedrich Bollnow : Studies on Hermeneutics. Volume II: On the hermeneutic logic of Georg Misch and Hans Lipps. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1983, ISBN 3-495-47513-3 .
  • Massimo Mezzanzanica: Georg Misch. Dalla filosofia della vita alla logica ermeneutica. Franco Angeli, Milano 2001, ISBN 88-464-3111-1 .
  • Eric S. Nelson: Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of Philosophy, In: Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought . Bloomsbury, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-350-00256-2 .
  • Günter Pflug:  Misch, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 559 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dilthey: Gesammelte Schriften V, 225.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 170.
  3. ↑ The manuscript of the lecture is archived under this title in the manuscript department of the Göttingen State and University Library. An edition of the second, systematic part appeared in 1994 under the title The Structure of Logic on the Basis of the Philosophy of Life (see “Works”).
  4. ↑ H.-G. Gadamer : Hermeneutics and the Dilthey School. In: Philosophical Review . 38th Jg. (1991) H. 3, pp. 161-177, here p. 164.
  5. ↑ watson.ch
personal data
SURNAME Misch, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1965
Place of death Goettingen