Klaus Reich

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Klaus Reich (born December 1, 1906 in Berlin ; † January 24, 1996 in Marburg ) was a German philosopher who mainly dealt with Immanuel Kant .

Life

Reich studied philosophy and classical philology in Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin and Rostock from 1925 to 1932 . His philosophical teachers included Edmund Husserl , Jonas Cohn and above all Julius Ebbinghaus , with whom he received his doctorate in Rostock in 1932. In 1933 he was dismissed from his position as a research assistant at the University of Rostock because of his rejection of National Socialism and subsequently prevented from doing his habilitation due to repeated party interventions. The emigrated classical philologists Ernst Kapp and Rudolf Pfeiffer conveyed Reich's writings to the Oxford Kant specialist Herbert James Paton , whereupon he invited him to England for the summer of 1939. This was thwarted when Reich was called to a military exercise and the war began. Reich did his military service as a simple soldier in the Air Force and was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1945.

It was not until 1946 that he received his habilitation from Ebbinghaus in Marburg. From 1947 on, Reich held an unscheduled professorship in Marburg , which was converted into a full professorship in 1956, which he held until his retirement in 1972. After that, he continued to hold lectures until his death.

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Reich's work, which is narrow in scope, is primarily devoted to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as well as to ancient philosophy, especially Plato . Besides Ebbinghaus he was the main representative of the - u. a. by Hans Georg Gadamer so called - "Marburg Arch-Kantianism", who devoted himself to the exact reconstruction of Kant's philosophy in an emphatic self-demarcation from Neo-Kantianism and sought to prove its argumentative superiority over all Kantianizing (and also all other) positions.

Reich's most important work is his dissertation The Completeness of the Kantian Judgment Table from 1932. In it he reconstructs the argument with which Kant had proven or believed to have proven the completeness of the judgment table in the Critique of Pure Reason . By taking into account the handwritten legacy, he tried to show how the categories can be derived from the structure of subjectivity. According to the introduction to his writings (in one volume), this "groundbreaking work ... has raised Kant research to a new level" and is regarded by his students as a classic of Kant literature. Reichs Kant and the ethics of the Greeks (1935), on the other hand, did not even receive a strong response from his students.

For some of his students, Reich's essays on Kant marked the level of Kant's interpretation which they endeavored to follow; this included u. a. Dieter Henrich (although not primarily), Manfred Baum and Reinhard Brandt . Following Reich's dissertation, the latter and Michael Wolff provided further treatises on the reconstruction of Kant's proof of completeness. He was treated critically u. a. by Lorenz Krüger and Hans Lenk . Henrich's Kant studies, especially his study Identity and Objectivity (1976) on the reconstruction of the transcendental deduction, were also partly inspired by Reich (and, among others, Wilfrid Sellars ).

Publications

Reich's writings are incomplete in:

Collected Writings . With introduction and annotations from the estate, ed. by Manfred Baum et al. Hamburg: Meiner, 2001. (pp. 499–504: List of publications)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Baum / Udo Rameil / Klaus Reisinger / Gertrud Scholz: Introduction . In: Klaus Reich: Collected writings . Hamburg 2001, p. IX. See also Julius Ebbinghaus: [Review of:] Klaus Reich: The completeness of the Kantian judgment table . Berlin 1932. In: Deutsche Literaturzeitung , Heft 44, 1933, Sp. 2074–2077 (again in: Julius Ebbinghaus, Interpretation and Critique. Writings on Theoretical Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 1924-1972. Bonn 1990, pp. 95–97).

literature

  • Manfred Baum: Klaus Reich (1906-1996) . In: Kant-Studien 87 (1996), pp. 129-131.
  • Marion Heinz: Kant's foundation of concept and judgment in the originally synthetic unity of apperception. Considerations following Klaus Reich . In: Metaphysics and Criticism. Festschrift for Manfred Baum . Edited by Sabine Doyé, Marion Heinz, Udo Rameil, de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, pp. 137–151.
  • Norbert Nail: Academic paths between exile and imprisonment. How it started in 1933 and how it ended in 1945. In: Studenten-Kurier 3/2015, 18-21. [including Klaus Reich about his captivity in 1945 on the Rhine meadows near Koblenz]. https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/uniarchiv/streiflichter/universitaetshistorische-miszellen

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SURNAME Reich, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1996
Place of death Marburg