Michael Benedikt (philosopher)

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Michael Benedikt (born November 17, 1928 in Vienna ; † August 13, 2012 in Lehsdorf in Lower Austria ) was an Austrian university professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna .

Life

Benedikt is the second child of the language teacher Edith, a born gardener, and the Salzburg writer, classical philologist and high school teacher Eugen Benedikt. He attended a Realgymnasium ( secondary school ), refused the officer's course in 1944/45 and went into hiding after receiving the last draft for the Wehrmacht . In 1946 he passed the Matura in Vienna- Döbling and first studied soil culture ; then English studies , Romance studies , philosophy (with Alois Dempf , Friedrich Kainz , Victor Kraft , N. Bolterauer); then sociology , ethnology and psychology in Vienna, Munich , Freiburg and with a Fulbright scholarship in Minneapolis-St. Paul . He did his doctorate in 1952 at the University of Vienna, left the academic world and worked successively as a bookseller , gardener , cook and librarian . After completing a high school diploma course for teaching at elementary schools , he taught as an elementary school teacher (also at a one-class elementary school), secondary school teacher and trial teacher at the Werkschulheim Felbertal high school . He led the boarding of the college of Neulandschule in Vienna- favorites , taught as religion and Latin teacher and was a postulant at a Olivetans - monastery in Siena . When he was offered a position as state school inspector for special schools in southern Lower Austria , the authorities turned him down again because he refused to join the Austrian People's Party . He was entrusted with the management of the international student house of the Vienna Caritas on the corner of Seilerstätte / Annagasse , later headed the Institute of European Studies in Freiburg i. Br., Where he also studied as a Humboldt fellow in 1962/63 .

At the end of the 1970s he first became a lecturer and later professor at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, where he taught philosophy for more than two decades until 1991.

In 1969 and 1971 Benedikt was a teacher at an educational academy , twice full professor in Pennsylvania , USA; In 1972 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 1976 became a full professor for philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He retired on October 1, 1997. Benedikt organized numerous interdisciplinary events, symposia and congresses, a lecture series on the anthropology of developing life , gave lectures at the Urania (Vienna) and in 18 countries in Europe and overseas. Benedikt was president of the Society for Phenomenology and Critical Anthropology from 1986-2003 and since 2007 its honorary chairman. He was a member of 15 societies, including the Collège International de Philosophie and Institute for History of European Ideas , Fulbright and Humboldt alumni and holder of the gold medal of the federal capital Vienna.

With Wanda, née Seilern, and Aspang, Benedikt has six children together and in 1985 founded a neighborhood association for expectant mothers , of which Michael Benedikt was a board member; Wanda Benedikt heads the association and from 1986 to 2002 was also the head of a mother and child home in Vienna- Brigittenau made possible by the then President of Austrian Caritas Leopold Ungar .

Main area of ​​work

"Transformation of the conventional ontologia generalis and its specifications into an anthropologia transcendentalis as an instance of the foundation of the natural, social and human sciences."

translation

  • Mircea Eliade: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries. Together with Matthias Vereno. Otto Müller, Salzburg 1955.

Works

  • Knowledge and belief. Herder, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-210-24473-1 .
  • Philosophical empiricism. Herder, Vienna-Freiburg-Basel 1977, ISBN 3-210-24533-9 .
  • Determining and reflective judgment. Publishing house of the Association of Scientific Societies in Austria, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-85369-472-1 .
  • Heidegger's half-world. Turia and Kant, Vienna-Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-85132-017-4 .
  • Philosophical Politics? Turia and Kant, Vienna-Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-85132-035-2 .
  • Art and dignity. Turia and Kant, Vienna-Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-85132-074-3 .
  • Anthropodicy. Turia and Kant, Vienna-Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-85132-098-0 .
  • No end to the future. Turia and Kant, Vienna-Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-85132-137-5 .
  • Free knowledge and philosophy of freedom. Turia and Kant, Vienna-Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-85132-137-5 .
  • Foci - Splinters and Bars I: The Metaphysics of Others. Turia and Kant, Vienna 1998,
  • Focal points - splinters and beams II: On your own metaphysics. Turia and Kant, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85132-248-7 .
  • Philosophical empiricism I. Theory. Turia and Kant, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85132-181-2 .
  • Philosophical empiricism II. Practice. Turia and Kant, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85132-182-0 .
  • Philosophical empiricism III. Speculation, Part 1. A passage between cyberspace and anthropo-narcissism. Turia and Kant, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85132-292-4 .
  • Philosophical empiricism III. Speculation, part 2: The truth that can be reasonably expected of us: back and forth in the unthinkable. Turia and Kant, 2001, ISBN 3-85132-309-2 .
  • Philosophical Empiricism IV. Language and Society, Part 1. Anthropological Foundation of Expression and Representation. Turia and Kant, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85132-374-2 .
  • Numerous essays (also in English, French, Italian), reviews, study scripts.

Editing

  • Adalbert Stifter, Collected Works, 6 volumes. Together with H. Hornstein. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1956.
  • Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries. Translated from French into German by Michael Benedikt and Matthias Vereno. - Otto Müller, Salzburg 1961.
  • Franz Fischer: Proflexion - Logic of Humanity. Together with W. Priglinger. Löcker, Vienna 1985.
  • Critical Method and Future of Anthropology. Together with Rudolf Burger. Braumüller, Vienna 1985. ISBN 3-7003-0-632-6 .
  • The Crisis of Phenomenology and the Pragmatics of Scientific Advances. Together with Rudolf Burger. Edition S, Vienna 1986. ISBN 3-7046-0043-1 .
  • Zygote, fetus, human. On the anthropology of developing life. Humanities Studies 15. Together with R. Potz. Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1986. ISBN 3-224-17715-2 .
  • Consciousness, Language and Art. Metamorphoses of truth. Together with Rudolf Burger. Edition S, Vienna 1988. ISBN 3-7046-0102-6 .
  • Alois Dempf: The concept of value in Aristotelian ethics and politics. Together with W. Priglinger. Publishing house of the Association of Austrian Scientific Societies, Vienna 1989.
  • Dialogue thinking - social ethics: Against the ubiquitous violence of social appropriation. Together with Angelica Bäumer. Passagen Verlag , Vienna 1991, ISBN 978-3-90076-776-1
  • Scholarly republic - lifeworld. Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schütz in the crisis of the phenomenological movement . Together with Angelica Bäumer. Passagen Verlag , Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3-90076-777-8
  • Fin de Siècle ambivalence: Vienna - Zagreb. Together with D. Barbaric. Böhlau, Vienna 1998.
  • Franz Fischer yearbooks for philosophy and education / On the educational sense of the sciences and on the ethics of the other . Anne Fischer Leipziger Uni-Verlag, Leipzig 2000. ISBN 978-3-926049-27-8 .
  • Repressed humanism - delayed enlightenment. Austrian philosophy from 1400 to the present. Ludwigsburg, Klausen-Klausenburg, Vienna.
  • Volume 1, Part 1: Philosophy in Austria (1400-1650): from the Council of Constance to the appearance of Luther, from the beginning of the Reformation to the Peace of Westphalia. WUV, Vienna 1996. ISBN 3-9500439-2-6 .
  • Volume 1, Part 2: Philosophy in Austria between the Reformation and the Enlightenment (1650-1750): the strength of the baroque. WUV, Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-9500439-3-4 .
  • Volume 2: Austrian Philosophy at the Time of the Revolution and Restoration. (1750-1820) Turia and Kant, Vienna 1992. ISBN 3-85132-020-4 .
  • Volume 3: Education and imagination, from the misguided bourgeoisie to liberalism: Philosophy in Austria (1820-1880). WUV, Vienna 1995. ISBN 3-9500439-1-8 .
  • Volume 4: Claim and echo, secession and new beginnings in the crown lands to the fin de siècle: Philosophy in Austria (1880-1920). WUV, Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-9500439-5-0 .
  • Volume 5: In the shadow of totalitarianisms: from philosophical empiricism to critical anthropology; Philosophy in Austria 1920-1951. WUV, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-85114-916-5 .
  • Volume 6: In search of authentic philosophizing. Philosophy in Austria 1951-2000. Facultas, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-7089-0446-7 .

literature

  • Josef Rupitz, Elisabeth Schönberger, Cornelius Zehetner (eds.): Beware of anthropology. Interdisciplinary studies on philosophical empiricism and transcendental anthropology. Michael Benedikt on his 70th birthday. Turia and Kant, Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-85132-184-7 .
  • Wolfgang Pircher (ed.): Against the state of emergency. On the criticism of Carl Schmitt. Political Philosophy and Economics. Dedication for Michael Benedikt. Springer, Vienna-New York 1999. ISBN 3-211-83078-2 . ISSN  1437-6881 . SPIN 10662359.
  • Cornelius Zehetner, Hermann Rauchenschwandtner, Birgit Zehetmayer (eds.): Transformations of critical anthropology. [Contributions from the symposium on the 80th birthday of Michael Benedikt] Löcker, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-85409-539-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Eugen Benedikt was sentenced to death in 1917 for anti-war propaganda , but was pardoned informally by Emperor Karl through Katharina Schratt . In the 1920s he was co-initiator of the International Union of Reconciliation , of which he temporarily headed the Austrian section; 1927 co-founder of the Religious Socialists with little Otto Bauer ; 1934 joined the illegal Revolutionary Socialists party ; 1939 emigrated to New Zealand . After his death in Zurich on October 5, 1939 , his family was expelled and pushed back to the Liechtenstein - Germany border .
  2. ↑ Own representation in the Festschrift (see literature: Rupitz etc.), page 433.
personal data
SURNAME Benedict, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2012
Place of death Lehsdorf