Helene Weiss

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Helene Weiss (born October 24, 1898 in Sagan , Silesia, † 1951 in Basel ) was a German philosopher who was one of Martin Heidegger's important students .

Life

Helene Weiss was born on October 24, 1898 in Sagan (Silesia) as the daughter of Hermann Weiss (1852–1921) and his wife Babette Weiss (1872–1943), b. Rosenbacher, born. Her father was a factory owner in Sagan, he came from Boskovice in the Czech Republic . Her mother was born in Hamburg in 1872 ; she died in 1943 in exile in Oxford, England .

She attended the secondary school for girls in Sagan from 1905 to 1914 and a private lyceum in Hamburg from Easter 1914 to Easter 1915, where she received the certificate of high school qualification. From 1915 to 1918 she attended the Oberrealschule on Hansastraße in Hamburg, where she passed her A-levels at Easter 1918. In 1922, she subsequently passed her Latinum at the secondary school in Mannheim.

From 1919 to 1936, Weiss studied philosophy, history, classical philology, theology, art history and archeology at the universities of Marburg , Munich , Freiburg and Basel with interruptions . In 1930 she began her doctorate, which she completed in Freiburg in 1934. With this study ( The Chance in the Philosophy of Aristotle , due to the circumstances of the time, only published in Basel in 1942 as a book under the title Causality and Chance in the Philosophy of Aristotle ) she received her doctorate in 1935 at the University of Basel under Herman Schmalenbach and Paul Häberlin .

From 1930 to 1934 Helene Weiss attended lectures and seminar exercises by Martin Heidegger, to whom she owed the “enabling of philosophical work [...] in the decisive sense”. At the University of Basel she was supported in her linguistic and philosophical studies by the important Graecist Peter von der Mühll (1885–1970) and by the Eucken student Herman Schmalenbach (1885–1950). With their help, she continued her Aristotle studies at Cambridge University in England from 1937 .

Notes, transcripts, transcripts by Helene Weiss, Hermann Mörchen and Hans Loewald

Like her fellow students Hermann Mörchen (1906–1990), Hans Loewald (1906–1993) and Franz Josef Brecht (1899–1982), Helene Weiss made transcripts of the lectures she attended by Martin Heidegger, which she, hindered by her temporary academic absence , supplemented with copies of those lecture transcripts that Brecht, Löwald and Mörchen made. This comprehensive legacy from Helene Weiss on Martin Heidegger's decisive academic teaching activities from 1930 to 1934, which she handed over to her nephew, the philosopher Ernst Tugendhat (born 1930 in Brno), immediately after the end of the Second World War, who in turn gave it to at Stanford University teaching philosopher and Heidegger researcher Thomas Sheehan (born 1941) for research purposes in 1992 is still awaiting evaluation.

Fonts (selection)

Essays;

  • Helene Weiss: Democritus' theory of cognition . In: The Classical Quarterly , 32, 47-56 (1938). ISSN 1471-6844.
  • Helene Weiss: The Greek conceptions of time and being in the light of Heidegger's philosophy . In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 2 ; Vol. 2 (1941), pp. 173-187. ISSN 1933-1592.
  • Helene Weiss: An interpretative note on a passage in Plotinus on eternity and time . In: Classical Philology , Vol. 36 (1941), H. 3. pp. 230-239. ISSN 1546-072X.
  • Helene Weiss: Notes on the Greek ideas referred to in van Helmont "De tempore" . In: Isis , Vol. 33 (1941/42) p. 624. ISSN 1545-6994.
  • Helene Weiss: Aristotle's teleology and Uexküll's theory of living nature . In: The Classical Quarterly , Vol. 42 (1948), H. 1/2. Pp. 44-58. ISSN 1471-6844.
  • Helene Weiss: Notes on the Greek ideas referred to in van Helmont "De tempore" . In: Osiris , Vol. 8 (1948). ISSN 0369-7827.

Monographs;

  • Martin Heidegger: Lógica. Lecciones de M. Heidegger (semestre verano 1934) en el legado de Helene Weiss . (= Textos y documentos. Clásicos del pensiamento y de las ciencias; Vol. 12). Bilingual edition. Publisher Anthropos, Barcelona 1991. L, 136 pp. ISBN 84-7658-305-2 . (Introduction and translation by Víctor Farías ).
  • Helene Weiss: Chance in the philosophy of Aristotle . Wissenschaftliche Buchgemeinschaft, Darmstadt 1967. 202 pp. (Reprint of the Basel 1942 edition)
    • Helene Weiss: Causality and Chance in the Philosophy of Aristotle. Scientific book club 1967. (Reprint of the Basel edition 1942). Printed in England by Wyndham Printers Limited London. 200 p. (Diss. Univ. Basel 1935)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hellmuth Vetter: Heidegger floor plan. A handbook on life and work . Meiner, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7873-2276-3 , pp. 494 .
  2. ↑ Heidegger at Stanford ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Thomas Sheehan, Retrieved January 26, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / religiousstudies.stanford.edu
  3. ↑ Dissertation on obtaining a doctorate from the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel presented by Helene Weiss from Sagan (Silesia) on July 1, 1935. Ref. Herman Schmalenbach u. Paul Häberlin .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish-German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagan , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1951
Place of death Basel