Gerhard Knauss

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Gerhard Gustav Knauss (born April 30, 1928 in Heidelberg ; † August 9, 2020 in Püttlingen ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Knauss studied mathematics and physics as well as philosophy with Karl Jaspers at the Universities of Heidelberg and Basel . In 1951 he did his doctorate with Karl Jaspers with "Subject and Comprehensive". Then he was assistant to Karl Löwith . 1953 to 1958 he held a visiting professorship at the Imperial University Tōhoku in Sendai (today's University of Tōhoku ) in Japan. 1957/58 he taught at the University of Tokyo on the Komaba campus. On his return to Heidelberg, he initially headed the Studium generale and later the doctoral college. In 1971 Knauss completed his habilitation at the Saarland University under Karl-Heinz Ilting with a thesis on "Synthetic Sentences a Priori and Metaphysics". Until his retirement in 1993, he was an associate professor at Saarland University.

Following Karl Jaspers' answer to Gerhard Knauss's contribution in Paul Schilpp's “The Philosophy of Karl Jaspers” (1957), there was another exchange between Knauss and Jaspers, in which the main issue was the possibility of a continuous one Further development of an empirically founded philosophical-therapeutic logic (Jaspers) and the alternative, shown by Knauss and described by Glenn C. Wood as "radically mystical-constructivist", "an a priori formal logic that structures the data of possible experience.

The novel The Key by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō was translated into German by Gerhard Knauss and Sachiko Yatsushiro.

Letters from Gerhard Knauss can be found among others. a. in the estate of Karl Jaspers and Karl Löwith .

Gerhard Knauss lived in Blieskastel . In the last years of his life he lived in Heusweiler . According to his wishes, he was buried in the family grave in Heidelberg-Rohrbach.

Works

  • What does "originally" mean? In: Three little essays: presented to Karl Jaspers for his seventieth birthday. Edited by Gerhard Knauss, Heinrich Popitz, Guido Schneeberger, 1953. Pages 26-44
  • Object and encompassing. Basel: Publishing house for law and society 1954 (dissertation)
  • The concept of the "Encompassing" in Jaspers' Philosophy. in: Paul Arthur Schilpp (Ed.): Philosophy of Karl Jaspers, Tudor, New York 1957
  • Karl Jaspers: The image of a philosopher. In: Frank Werner Veauthier (Ed.) Jaspers in honor. Symposium on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Heidelberg 1986 pp. 7-34, ISBN 3-533-03856-4
  • Buddhism and happiness . in: Schopenhauer Jahrbuch 69, 1988 pp. 465–481
  • From the Weimar Republic to world politics. Lecture given on August 25, 1993 at the third international Jaspers conference
  • The importance of the idea of ​​the encompassing for the philosophy of the future. Lecture given on August 4, 1998 at the fourth international Jaspers conference
  • Enlightened Muslims? in: FAZ No. 302 of December 30, 2002 p. 10
  • Jaspers as he was and how he wasn't - so how he really was. Lecture given on June 7, 2006 as part of the conference “Encounters with Karl Jaspers”, University of Mainz
  • Beginning and end of the thought of Karl Jaspers. in: Historical reality with a view to the fundamental questions of humanity, Ed. Andreas Cesana, Würzburg 2008
  • About the second best solution in Nagarjuna's Ratnavali based on the translation text by Akimechi Eda in: AUFGANG Volume 10, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 118–125, ISBN 978-3-17-022974-7
  • Does existence have a purpose? in: AUFGANG Volume 11, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 234–29, ISBN 978-3-17-025372-8
  • Synthetic sentences apriori and metaphysics , Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2016, 371 pp., ISBN 978-3-86110-585-5
  • As the first German philosophy professor in post-war Japan, in: Friedhelm Köhler , Friederike Migneco , Benedikt Maria Trappen (eds.): Freedom. Awareness. Responsibility. Festschrift for Volker Zotz for his 60th birthday . Edition Habermann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-96025-009-8
  • It's all a matter of the head. in: AUFGANG Volume 14, Augsburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-945732-21-2 , pp. 199–203
  • Reminiscences of Japan. in: existence. An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and the Arts. Edited by Helmut Wautischer; Vol. 13, No. 1 2018; ISSN 1932-1066, pp. 1-11
  • Subject-Object Division in Jaspers, Schopenhauer and Nishida. in: existence. An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and the Arts. Edited by Helmut Wautischer; Vol. 13, No. 1 2018; ISSN 1932-1066, pp. 12-18

Web links

  • Jaspers 2008, p. 60, PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar : Humanities and Social Sciences. 17th edition (1996). P. 722.
  2. ↑ Karl Jaspers' last pupil, Gerhard Knauss, is dead; in: Saarbrücker Zeitung from August 19, 2020
  3. ↑ Glenn C. Wood: The Jaspers Gerhard Knauss Exchange.Retrieved November 12, 2017
  4. ↑ Knauss is mentioned several times in the correspondence between Jaspers and Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Löwith and Hannah Arendt, in: Karl Jaspers: Korrespondenzen Philosophie pp. 349, 351, 516, 525, 531, Göttingen 2016; ISBN 978-3-8353-1005-6
  5. ^ Yearbook of the German Schiller Society. Eds. Alexander Honold, Christine Lubkoll, Ernst Osterkamp, ​​Ulrich Raulff, p. 664, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-046812-0
  6. ↑ SZ mourning online from August 22, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Knauss, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knauss, Gerhard Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg