Hansjörg Salmony

Hansjörg Alfred Salmony (born February 16, 1920 in Cologne ; † February 17, 1991 in Basel ) was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Basel .

Hansjörg Salmony came from a German-Jewish family and emigrated in 1938 first to Belgium, then to France, where he was interned in the Saint-Cyprien camp, but was able to break out and flee to Switzerland . There he matriculated at the University of Basel in 1942, received his doctorate from Herman Schmalenbach in 1948 with a thesis on Johann Gottfried Herder and completed his habilitation in 1958 with a thesis on Johann Georg Hamann . From 1956 to 1961 he was assistant to Karl Jaspers in Basel and in 1961 he was appointed professor there as the successor to Heinrich Barth . He taught until 1988 and was an academic teacher a. a. by Hans Saner , Anton Hügli and Andreas Cesana .

His main areas of work were classical authors of philosophy, especially Immanuel Kant , as well as questions of a philosophical anthropology with a pessimistic orientation.

Fonts

• Young Herder's philosophy . Vineta, Zurich 1949.
• Johann Georg Hamann's metacritical philosophy . AG Zollikon, Basel 1958
• Kant's work “The End of All Things” . EVZ Verlag, Zurich 1962
• Basel contributions to philosophy and its history (ed.) (Dissertations supervised by HA Salmony):
  • Volume 1: Franz A. Blankart: Duality, Relation and Mediation. EVZ Verlag, Zurich 1966
  • Volume 2: Rolf Kugler: Philosophical Aspects of the Biology of Adolf Portmann. EVZ Verlag, Zurich 1967
  • Volume 3: Karin Schaub: Albert Camus and death. EVZ Verlag, Zurich 1968
  • Volume 4: Claus Uwe Hommel: Cipher and Dogma. On the relationship between philosophy and religion in Karl Jaspers. EVZ Verlag, Zurich 1968
  • Volume 5: Traugott Weisskopf: Immanuel Kant and pedagogy. Contributions to a monograph. EVZ Verlag, Zurich 1970
  • Volume 6: Curt Paul Janz. Friedrich Nietzsche's letters. Text problems and their significance for biography and doxography. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1972
  • Volume 7: Anton Hügli: The knowledge of subjectivity and the objectivity of knowledge in SØren Kirkegaard. Theological publishing house. Zurich 1973
  • Volume 8: Odo Urbanitsch: Philosophical and philosophical-anthropological aspects of Freudian psychoanalysis. Birkäuser Verlag, Basel / Boston 1983
  • Volume 9: Andreas Cesana: Johann Jakob Bachofen's interpretation of history. An examination of their historical-philosophical prerequisites. Birkäuser Verlag, Basel / Boston 1983.
  • Volume 10: Beat Imhof: Edith Stein's philosophical development. Life and Work (First Volume). Birkäuser Verlag, Basel / Boston 1987
  • Volume 11: Herta Steinbauer: Psychoanalysis and its intellectual-historical connections with special consideration of Freud's theory of literature and his interpretation of poetic work. Birkäuser Verlag, Basel / Boston 1987
• Further dissertations supervised by HA Salmony:
  • Hans Saner: Kant's way from war to peace. Conflict and unity. Paths to Kant's Political Thought. Publishing house R. Piper, Munich 1967.
  • Walo E. Hartmann: About laughter. On the anthropological significance of the ability to laugh and the ability to laugh. Schaffhausen 1998
  • Fritz Ganser: Structures of the logo. On the phenomenology of consciousness in Hermann Schmalenbach. European university publications. Publishing house Peter Lang, Bern 1995

literature

• Andreas Cesana and Olga Rubitschon (eds.): Philosophical tradition in dialogue with the present. Festschrift for Hansjörg A. Salmony. Springer, Basel 1985.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hansjörg Salmony in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website about Hansjörg Salmony