Kurt Rudolf Fischer

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Kurt Rudolf Fischer (born February 26, 1922 in Vienna , † March 22, 2014 in Lancaster , Pennsylvania ) was an Austrian philosopher . After emigrating to Brno in 1938 and to Shanghai in 1940 , he immigrated to the USA in 1949 and returned to his native Vienna in 1979.

Life

Fischer attended the secondary school in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria , he fled to relatives in Brno in Czechoslovakia at the age of 16 . When the German troops marched in here, too, he and his descendants succeeded in obtaining an exit visa to Shanghai , one of the last places of refuge that was still taking in Jewish refugees at that time. He got by there with all kinds of jobs as a translator, night watchman and boxer - during these years he became a Chinese boxing champion . Leo Roth was one of his friends in Shanghai .

After the Second World War he began his studies at St. John's University in Shanghai. Due to his good academic achievements, he was granted entry to the USA in 1949, where he began studying philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley , and graduated with a PhD in 1964. Here he made friends with the philosopher Paul Feyerabend, who was two years his junior and who had come to Berkeley from Austria . From 1967 to 1980 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Millersville , Pennsylvania , and from 1979 to 2008 he was an honorary professor at the University of Vienna . In 2000 he accepted the Franz Rosenzweig guest professorship at the University of Kassel . One of Fischer's students is the Austrian philosopher Volker Zotz , who gratefully points out this in the foreword of his dissertation. Fischer died on March 22, 2014 at the age of 92 after a long illness in a nursing home in the USA.

Honors

Fonts

  • Contemporary European Philosophers (1963), Berkeley, 2nd ed. 1968, 3rd ed. 1972
  • Franz Brentano's Philosophy of "Evidenz" , Berkeley 1964
  • Nietzsche and the 20th Century. Existentialism, National Socialism, Psychoanalysis, Wiener Kreis , Vienna 1986
  • Philosophy from Vienna. Essays on analytical and Austrian philosophy, on the world views of the Viennese fin-de-siècle and biographies from Berkeley, Shanghai and Vienna , Vienna-Salzburg 1991
  • Austrian philosophy from Brentano to Wittgenstein . A reader . UTB 2086, Vienna 1999
  • "Youth and Flight to Shanghai", in: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Ed.): Confrontations with the destroyed Jewish legacy. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures (1999-2005) , Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89958-044-3
  • Stanley Cavell , After Philosophy. Essays . Second, expanded and revised edition. With a new introduction published by Ludwig Nagl and Kurt Rudolf Fischer, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-05-003421-1 . (First edition: After Philosophy. Essays by Stanley Cavell . With an interview with the author and a review appendix. Edited by Kurt Rudolf Fischer and Ludwig Nagl, Vienna 1987.)

literature

  • Peter Muhr, Paul Feyerabend, Cornelia Wegeler (eds.): Philosophy - Psychoanalysis - Emigration. Festschrift for Kurt Rudolf Fischer on his 70th birthday , Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85114-070-2
  • Gertraud Diem-Wille, Ludwig Nagl , Friedrich Stadler (eds.): Weltanschauung of the Viennese Fin de Siècle 1900/2000. Ceremony for Kurt Rudolf Fischer on his eightieth birthday , Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern etc. 2002, ISBN 3-631-36257-9
  • Kurt Rudolf Fischer: Emigration to Shanghai , pp. 487–498 in: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Vol. 1 of Displaced Reason: Emigration and Exile Austrian Science, 1930-1940 , LIT Verlag Münster, 2004, ISBN 978-3- 82587-3-721
  • Friedrich Stadler, "Exile as a way of life - the emigrant and remigrant Kurt Rudolf Fischer (1922-2014)", in: Return from Exile - return from exile. Exiles, Returnees and Their Impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Austria and Central Europe (Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Manfred Prisching, eds.), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, pp. 331–346, ISBN 978-3- 7001-8068-5
  • Ludwig Nagl, "Some Reflections on How the Remigrant KR Fischer influenced Vienna´s Academic Discourses", in: Return from Exile. Exiles, Returnees and Their Impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Austria and Central Europe (Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Manfred Prisching, eds.), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, pp. 347–362, ISBN 978-3- 7001-8068-5

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ Volker Zotz: On the reception, interpretation and criticism of Buddhism in the German-speaking area from the fin-de-siècle to 1930: historical sketch and main motifs. Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1986, p. III
  2. ↑ Philosopher Kurt Rudolf Fischer died. In: derStandard.at. March 27, 2014, accessed December 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Kurt Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2014
Place of death Lancaster , Pennsylvania