Hans Saner

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Hans Saner (born  December 3, 1934 in Grosshöchstetten ; † December 26, 2017 in Basel ) was a Swiss philosopher . From 1962 to 1969 he was Karl Jaspers' personal assistant .

Live and act

Hans Saner grew up in the pious milieu of an Anabaptist family as the youngest of six siblings in Grösshöchstetten in the canton of Bern . At the age of fourteen he turned away from his parents' church. According to their own statement, the final decisive factor was that they described Gandhi as lost because he was not baptized.

After secondary school and training at the teacher training college in Hofwil , he worked as a teacher in Wilderswil for five years . From 1959 he studied for a year at the University of Lausanne Romance , then at the University of Basel German , psychology and philosophy , where he in 1967 with a thesis on Kant's political philosophy doctorate was. In his fourth semester, the German studies specialist Walter Muschg and the philosopher Karl Jaspers had offered him assistant positions. Saner decided in favor of Jaspers and became not only his closest academic assistant, but also an interlocutor and confidante and, after Jaspers' death, the editor of his estate until 2000 . Jaspers had bequeathed his 11,000 volume library to him. In turn, he gave it to Jaspers' native Oldenburg .

At the end of the 1970s, Saner resumed his university career. An appointment to the University of Bern failed due to resistance from right-wing professors, despite the protests of the Bern philosophy students. Saner became a lecturer at the Basel Music Academy , where he taught cultural philosophy until 2008 .

Saner did not pursue an academic philosophy. The "diagnostician of Helvetosklerose" commented regularly on current political and social issues such as age suicide , abortion , multiculturalism or financial crisis and turned explicitly to a general audience. In addition, he was politically active. For example, he supported the popular initiative for an unconditional basic income, which failed at the polls in 2016 . In contrast, he always refused political office; philosophy must remain powerless.

Hans Saner last lived as a freelance publicist in Basel. After a long and serious illness, he died a good three weeks after his 83rd birthday, leaving behind his partner and four children. His wife died in 2002.

Saner wrote around 15 books that have been translated into eleven languages.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Conflict and unity. Paths to Kant's political thinking (= Kant's path from war to peace. Vol. 1). Basel 1967 (also: dissertation, University of Basel, 1967).
  • Karl Jaspers. In self-testimonials and picture documents. Reinbek 1970 (12. A. 2005), ISBN 3-499-50169-4 .
  • Between politics and the ghetto. About the relationship of the teacher to society. Basel 1977, ISBN 3-85787-041-9 .
  • Birth and imagination. Of the child's natural dissidence. Basel 1979, ISBN 3-85787-064-8 .
  • Hope and violence. To the distance of peace. Basel 1982, ISBN 3-85787-106-7 .
  • The herd of sacred cows and their shepherds. Basel 1983, ISBN 3-85787-119-9 .
  • Identity and resistance. Questions in a decaying democracy. Basel 1988, ISBN 3-85787-155-5 .
  • The anarchy of silence. Aphorisms. Basel 1990, ISBN 3-85787-197-0 .
  • Dramaturgies of fear. Basel 1991, ISBN 3-85787-603-4 .
  • Power and powerlessness of symbols . Essays. Basel 1993, ISBN 3-85787-227-6 .
  • Loneliness and communication. Essays on the history of thought. Basel 1994, ISBN 3-85787-236-5 .
  • Myths that we tell ourselves, myths that we live, myths that we make. Basel 1998.
  • The shadow of Orpheus. Basel 2000, ISBN 3-85787-314-0 .
  • Non-optimal strategies. Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85787-330-2 .
  • Remembering and forgetting. Essays on the history of thought. Basel 2004, ISBN 3-85787-358-2 .

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Hans Saner  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Philosopher Hans Saner died at the age of 83. sda article in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 30, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Rico Bandle, Roger Köppel : "Loyalty beyond death". In: Die Weltwoche 49/2014, December 3, 2014, accessed on December 30, 2017 (interview on 80th birthday).
  3. ↑ a b Maja Wicki-Vogt : The philosopher Hans Saner - "I want to formulate my sentences so provocatively that no one can agree with them" . In: Züri-Tip. November 16, 1990, archived with Maja Wicki, accessed on December 30, 2017.
  4. ^ Regina Jerichow: Mourning the Swiss philosopher Hans Saner. In: Nordwest-Zeitung , December 29, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Saner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Grosshöchstetten , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2017
Place of death Basel