Hans-Dieter Klein

The title of this article is ambiguous. For a German photographer with a similar name, see Hans Dieter Klein .

Hans-Dieter Klein (born October 13, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian philosopher and emeritus professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

After studying composition from 1953 to 1963 at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts in the class of Otto Siegl , which he completed with a graduation examination, he began studying philosophy and musicology at the University of Vienna and graduated with a doctorate sub auspiciis from. In 1969 he completed his habilitation in philosophy. Since 1975 he has been an associate professor, from 1982 a full professor at the University of Vienna.

In 1988 he became a corresponding and in 1990 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , and in 1991 he became President of the International Society “System of Philosophy”. The investigation of the conditions of existence of systems of philosophy - from Leibniz to the present day - is also one of Klein's central concerns.

Works

• Leibniz's monad as I and substantial form. Dissertation, Vienna 1962.
• Concept and method of philosophy. Habilitation thesis, Vienna 1969.
• Reason and reality .
  • Volume I: Studies on the Critique of Reason, Vienna and Munich 1973. 329 pp.
  • Volume II: Contributions to Realphilosophie, Vienna and Munich 1975. 460 pp.
• Philosophy of history . An introduction; Literas-Verlag, 6th unchanged edition, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-85429-200-7 .
• System of philosophy. Volume I: Studies on the Critique of Reason . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2002. 235 pp. ISBN 3-631-36505-5 .
• System of philosophy. Volume II: Natural Philosophy . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2006. 152 pp. ISBN 3-631-39434-9 .
• Metaphysics . An introduction. Vienna 1984. 109 pp.
• Various essays

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Dieter Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV and catalog raisonné