Hans Kunz

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Hans Kunz (born May 24, 1904 in Trimbach ( Canton Solothurn ), † April 27, 1982 in Basel ) was a Swiss philosopher , psychologist and botanist .

Life

Hans Kunz was born in Trimbach ( Canton Solothurn ) as the youngest of four children . He was a brother of the composer and conductor Ernst Kunz (1891–1980). The family moved to Basel in 1910, where Kunz attended schools. His inclination to observe nature was already evident in his school days; In his self-portrait , written in 1972, there is a description of attentive child-like “nature research” in the area of Kleinhüningen and in the Langen Erlen .

Kunz studied law at the University of Basel and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg until 1927 , according to his self-portrayal “more out of embarrassment than inclination”. The strong impression that a lecture by Karl Jaspers made in Heidelberg confirmed Kunz that he had already made the decision to give up law studies. After returning to the University of Basel, Hans Kunz then turned to psychological, philosophical and psychopathological studies. He received his doctorate in 1934 under Paul Häberlin with the thesis on the phenomenology and analysis of expression . In 1945 Kunz presented the anthropological significance of the imagination as a habilitation thesis.

In 1947 Kunz participated with Alexander Mitscherlich and Felix Schottlaender (1892–1958) in the founding of the magazine Psyche ; In the same year he was given responsibility for editing the German-language edition of Studia Philosophica , which he was in charge of until 1975.

1951 followed a call Kunz Basel University as an associate professor at the Chair of Theoretical psychology and philosophical anthropology . In 1966, Kunz was appointed full professor ad personam.

In 1959 Hans Kunz and Helen Bäumle married.

The estate is kept in the Solothurn Central Library. The Hans Kunz Society, founded there on October 19, 1999, wants to publish the complete works including unknown writings. In 2001 Jörg Singer began to publish the writings in a work edition within the company.

As a botanist with the official botanical author's abbreviation " Kunz ", Hans Kunz discovered several plant species: eleven species , subspecies and varieties of the European flora bear his name .

position

As a phenomenologist, Hans Kunz is one of those prominent philosophers who taught at the University of Basel in the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus Kunz is included in this circle of philosophers: Gustav Teichmüller , Friedrich Nietzsche , Karl Joël , Paul Häberlin , Karl Jaspers , Heinrich Barth and Arnold Künzli .

In his phenomenology, Kunz did not follow any particular philosophical school, rather he pursued the description of phenomena for the purpose of gaining knowledge as a goal that could never be fully achieved. In his phenomenological research, Kunz started from the central concept of being given . In doing so, he focused his perception on subtleties, details and differences. He made use of an unbiased description; to reductionism he refused. In his studies, Kunz dealt with Martin Heidegger , Ludwig Klages , Ludwig Binswanger and Helmuth Plessner .

Publications

philosophy

  • Aggression, tenderness and sexuality. Vol. 4 of the Hans Kunz Society. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1331-X
  • The anthropological importance of the imagination. 2 volumes. Part I: The Psychological Analysis and Theory of Fantasy, Part II: The Anthropological Interpretation of Fantasy / Edited by Jörg Singer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 2005. ISBN 3-7193-1393-X
  • The one world and the ways of being-in-the-world. Edited by Jörg Singer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7193-1418-7
  • Expectation, imagery and fantasy. With an autobiography and contributions to the work / edited by Jörg Singer. Huber, Frauenfeld 2001, ISBN 3-7193-1241-0
  • On the phenomenology and analysis of expression. Diss. Grenchen, 1938.
  • The anthropological importance of the imagination. Basel: Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft, 1946. 2 volumes. (Studia philosophica. Supplementum; 3-4)
  • About the meaning and limits of psychological knowledge. Stuttgart: Klett, 1957.
  • Basic questions of psychoanalytic anthropology. Selected treatises. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975. ISBN 3-525-45626-3
  • Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Klages. Analysis of existence and metaphysics. Munich: Kindler, 1976. ISBN 3-463-02162-5
  • Self-presentation. In: Psychology in self-portrayals. Huber, Bern [etc.] 1972
    (republished in anticipation, imagery and fantasy ).

botany

  • A new clan of the Clypeola Ionthlapsi L. from Valais (with Walo Koch ). In: Reports of the Swiss Botanical Society; 47 (1937), pp. 446f.
  • Small critical contributions to the flora of Basel and the surrounding area. 4 parts. In: Bauhinia, journal of the Basler Botanische Gesellschaft, 1960–1963 (Vol. 1, Issue 3, Vol. 2, Issue 2 and Vol. 3, Issue 1).

literature

  • Max Moor: The botanical work of Hans Kunz. In: Bauhinia; 5 (1974), No. 2, pp. 109-115
    (republished in anticipation, imagery and fantasy ).
  • Jörg Singer: The delusional as a basic anthropological trait. On the question of the constitution of madness in Hans Kunz. Swiss Society for Analysis of Existence, Zurich 2001
  • Jörg Singer: Hans Kunz. In: Emil Angehrn , Wolfgang Rother (Hrsg.): Philosophy in Basel. Prominent thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Schwabe, Basel 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philosophers at the University of Basel. In: Information Philosophy , 1/2013, p. 86.
  2. ^ Emil Angehrn, Wolfgang Rother (Ed.): Philosophy in Basel. Prominent thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Schwabe, Basel 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kunz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher, psychologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Trimbach SO
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1982
Place of death Basel