MAC Otto
MAC Otto (born September 26, 1918 as Maria Schätzle ; † September 24, 2005 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German philosopher .
Live and act
Maria Schätzle chose her pseudonym “Otto” after the first name of her father, a painter. She studied at universities in Heidelberg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Rome . In Freiburg she heard Heidegger and was a student of Bernhard Welte and Max Müller , with whom she received her doctorate in 1961 with a dissertation on repentance and freedom . Helmut Kuhn , together with Levinas' Totalité et Infinie, recognized it as a pioneering study for the expected “post-transcendental self- reflection of philosophy”.
For more than forty years, Mrs. Schätzle worked tirelessly and quietly as a private scholar . At the same time she worked for the publishing houses Alber and Herder as well as for the magazine Christ in der Gegenwart as an author , freelance editor , translator and editor . Her sensitivity for language and languages is not only evident in her own works, but also in the processing of foreign texts and in her translations from Italian , English and French . Her translation of the two-volume Phenomenology of Guilt by Paul Ricœur , published in 1971, was widely recognized.
In her major work, The Beginning , published in 1975 , which Ricœur welcomed as “a work of genuine philosophy” and in which he u. a. MAC Otto praised the “smoothness of execution”, the “systematic order” and the “free breath”, in detailed analyzes that determine the time as each person walks from his beginning to his end. Thinking at the beginning structures an understanding of the world. "Of course, the presented meditation does not give us any metaphysics, but rather an anti-metaphysics, not an ontology, but rather a me-ontology."
Was the Überweg (1986) - as Claus-Artur Scheier writes - “a brooding, tense nocturne , the experiment of pausing and 'turning away from oneself' in order to measure the distance from the 'beginning' and thereby the beginning to prove themselves ”, the phenomenological variations on the place (1992) show“ that they not only rejected but also foresaw ””. In the place , says MAC Otto about her book, “ nothing plays a role as that In this constellation, which defines the place, existence is entrusted to others (in contrast to Lévinas) and therefore also disappoints, horrifies. The place that defines existence as being here justified, is at odds with its time : the time spent there has the character of finite eternity . "
The third. A Phenomenon of Logic (2003) was MAC Otto's last work. Is on the cover, how MAC Otto the thinking is thinking: "Anything and everything can be pulled from thinking of the movement and comes to stand as something identical, the bumpy transition to its changes. The time lies before the thought spread out as a story, over the recorded sight of which it can wander back and forth. From the puffed-up being, it draws the basic word being , from the often encountered nonbeing it draws the basic word nothing . Thinking stands for the stays, the statements and theses, 'assumed that', without which there is no discourse . In the moment of thinking, which does not go out, which sends its semblance around, the thinking stands in the truth. "
Philosophical works
- Books
- Maria Otto: Repentance and Freedom. Trial about their relationship in the outcome of Sartre's drama. (Symposion Vol. 6) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1961, 2nd edition 1987. ISBN 978-3-495-44035-3
- MAC Otto: The beginning. A philosophical meditation on the possibility of the real . ( Fermenta philosophica ) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1975 and 2018: New edition, expanded by the previously unpublished lectures " Knowledge and Forgetting " and " Renunciation Gives ". Ed. And with an afterword v. Claus-Artur Scheier .
- MAC Otto: Crossings. To a phenomenology of the border . (Fermenta philosophica) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1986. ISBN 978-3-495-47615-4
- MAC Otto: The place. Phenomenological Variations . (Alber philosophy series) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1992. ISBN 978-3-495-47733-5
- MAC Otto: The festival . A phenomenology of exception . (Alber Thesen Vol. 15) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2000. ISBN 978-3-495-48037-3
- MAC Otto: The third. A phenomenon of logic . (Fermenta philosophica) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2003. ISBN 978-3-495-48106-6
- Minor treatises
- MAC Otto: knowledge and forgetting . In: Frankfurter Hefte . Magazine for culture and politics. Edited by Walter Dirks and Eugen Kogon. 8/1979. Pp. 55-62
- MAC Otto: About the equality of people . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 89th vol. 1982. pp. 397-405
- MAC Otto: None of the above. In: Facets of Truth . Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel . Edited by Ernesto Garzón Valdés and Ruth Zimmerling. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1995. ISBN 978-3-495-47820-2 . Pp. 141-149
- MAC Otto: Singing in the Fog . In: Philosophy of Structure - "Vehicle" of the Future? Festschrift for Heinrich Rombach . Edited by Georg Stenger and Margarete Röhrig. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1995. ISBN 978-3-495-47820-2 . Pp. 141-149
- MAC Otto: Philosophical Ballet. From the language of the unspeakable . In: Language and Pathos. On the reality of affect as the reason for the word, see. Edited by Ekkehard Blattmann, Susanne Granzer , Simone Hauke and Rolf Kühn . Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2001. ISBN 978-3-495-48019-9 . Pp. 158-171
Web links
- Literature by and about MAC Otto in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philosophische Rundschau 12, 1964, pp. 59–89
- ↑ Vol. 1: The fallibility of man . Vol. 2: Symbolism of Evil . Alber, Freiburg / Munich. 2002 as a study edition
- ↑ "C'est une oeuvr de vraie philosophie." "The souplesse de l'exécution", "ordre systématique et de libre respiration". Ricœur on March 3, 1976 in a letter to Maria Schätzle.
- ^ Perspectives of Philosophy IV (1978)
- ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 191 (1994) pp. 231 f. and 95 (1988) pp. 207-209
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Otto, MAC |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schätzle, Maria (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1918 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Freiburg im Breisgau |
DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 2005 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |