Herbert Spiegelberg

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Herbert Spiegelberg (born May 18, 1904 in Strasbourg , German Empire ; died September 6, 1990 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American philosopher and historian of philosophy of German origin. He is considered a representative of phenomenology .

Life

Herbert Spiegelberg was born in Strasbourg in 1904 as the son of the German Egyptologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg . He studied in Munich, Heidelberg and Freiburg, among others with Alexander Pfänder and Edmund Husserl . In 1928 he was with a thesis on the law and the moral law in pledges doctorate . Due to his Jewish origins, he was unable to complete his planned habilitation after the Nazis came to power . He first emigrated to Switzerland, and finally to the USA in 1938. There he taught at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and at Lawrence University in Appleton , Wisconsin . From 1963 until his retirement in 1971 he was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri . Spiegelberg was best known for his historical overview of the phenomenological movement published in 1960.

Works (selection)

  • Law and moral law: structural analysis and historical preliminary studies for a law-free ethics. Niehans, Zurich 1935.
  • Antirelativism: Critique of relativism and skepticism of values ​​and ought. Niehans, Zurich 1935.
  • The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction. Nijhoff, The Hague 1960; new revised edition 1980.
  • Alexander Pfander's phenomenology. Nijhoff, The Hague 1963.
  • The Context of the Phenomenological Movement. Nijhoff, The Hague 1981.
  • Should and may: Philosophical foundations of ethical rights and duties. Edited and edited by Karl Schuhmann, Kluwer, Dordrecht u. a. 1989.

literature

  • Spiegelberg, Herbert , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1100f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 2, 1983.
personal data
SURNAME Spiegelberg, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1990
Place of death St. Louis