MAC Otto

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MAC Otto
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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 .

ISBN 978-3-495-49036-5

Minor treatises

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophische Rundschau 12, 1964, pp. 59–89
  2. ↑ Vol. 1: The fallibility of man . Vol. 2: Symbolism of Evil . Alber, Freiburg / Munich. 2002 as a study edition
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ^ Perspectives of Philosophy IV (1978)
  5. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 191 (1994) pp. 231 f. and 95 (1988) pp. 207-209
personal data
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