Heinz Wismann (classical philologist)

Heinz Wismann ( Paris Book Fair , 2013)

Heinz Wismann (* 1935 in Berlin ) is a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Wismann works in France and is associated with the École de Lille . He is currently directeur d'études at EHESS . From 1986 to 2007 he was editor of the «Passages» series of the Éditions du Cerf . In Germany he was head of the research facility of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg from 1987 to 2003 .

Wismann is the son of Heinz Wismann , head of the literature department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Vice President of the Reich Chamber of Literature (1935–1937).

His main research interests are ancient Greek philosophy and hermeneutics as well as the afterlife of Kantian criticism ( Humboldt , Schleiermacher , Dilthey , Cassirer , Benjamin ).

Honors

• 2012: Prix ​​européen de l'essai Charles Veillon (European Essay Prize Charles Veillon) for his autobiography Penser entre les langues Albin Michel, Paris 2012.

Publications

Translations

• Héraclite ou la Séparation , en collaboration with Jean Bollack , Paris, Minuit, “Le sens commun”, 1972.
• Épicure , Lettre à Hérodote , Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1971.
• La Réplique de Jocaste: sur les fragments d'un poème lyrique découverts à Lille (Papyrus Lille 76 a, b et c) , en collaboration with Jean Bollack and Pierre Judet de la Combe , Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Publications de l'Université de Lille III, Paris, Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1977.
• Kant , Critique de la raison pratique , trad. En collaboration avec Luc Ferry , Paris, Gallimard, 1989.

Works and editorships

• Philologie et herméneutique au XIXe siècle 2. Actes du colloque organisé par le Center de recherche philologique de l'Université de Lille III du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 1977. Ed. by Mayotte Bollack and Heinz Wismann. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1983.
• Walter Benjamin et Paris . Actes du colloque international des 27-29 June 1983. Paris, Éd. du Cerf, coll. «Passages», 1986.
• together with Klaus Garber (ed.): European society movement and democratic tradition. The European academies of the early modern period between the early Renaissance and the late Enlightenment . Tübingen: Niemeyer 1996, 2 vols. ISBN 3-484-36526-9 .
• L'avenir des langues: repenser les humanités , en collaboration with Pierre Judet de la Combe , Paris, Éditions du Cerf , coll. "Passages", 2004.
• Les avatars du vide. Démocrite et les fondements de l'atomisme , Paris, coll. “Le Bel Aujourd'hui”, Éditions Hermann, 2010
• Penser entre les langues , Paris, Editions Albin Michel, coll. “Bibliothèque des Idées”, 2012, ISBN 978-2-226-20896-5 .

Web links

• Wismann in the Éditions du Cerf (with photo)
• Wismann at the College of Europe, Chair of European Civilization (with photo)
• Wismann as the keynote speaker at the 11th presentation of the Raymond Aron Prize (with photo)
• Heinz Wismann and Jean-Pierre Faye , Comment l'Europe m'est devenue une réalité , entretien filmé (with video).
• Heinz Wismann in Passion Hölderlin , documentary by Harald Bergmann (Germany 2003).
• Heinz Wismann on “Les matins de France Culture  ”: Des langues, des traditions, des cultures… une vision commune de l'Europe est-elle encore possible? Retrieved September 8, 2012. (With video).
• Heinz Wismann et Antoine Perraud, “Tire ta langue”, émission de radio sur France Culture , from September 16, 2012. L'au-delà de la langue. Accessed on September 16, 2012.
• Heinz Wismann in Der Schmetterlingjäger - 37 index cards for Nabokov , a film by Harald Bergmann (Germany-Switzerland 2013).