Michael Landmann

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Michael Landmann (born December 16, 1913 in Basel , † January 25, 1984 in Haifa ) was a Jewish Swiss philosopher . His main interest was in philosophical anthropology . He is also known as a Simmel researcher.

biography

Michael Landmann was a son of the economist Julius Landmann and the philosopher Edith Landmann . His brother is the classical philologist Georg Peter Landmann . His parents were friends of Stefan George and had contact with the George Circle .

Because his father was employed in Kiel , Landmann attended a grammar school there from 1927 to 1933. After returning to Switzerland, he studied philosophy, psychology, Greek and German at the University of Basel with Herman Schmalenbach , Paul Häberlin and Walter Muschg ; In between he studied in Paris for a year. In 1939 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of Socratism as a value ethics . After working as an assistant at Schmalenbach and Karl Jaspers , Landmann completed his habilitation in 1949 with Otto Friedrich Bollnow in Mainz , working on the problematic work . Ignorance and desire for knowledge in the philosophical consciousness . After a brief teaching activity in Mainz, Michael Landmann was professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin from 1951 to 1978 . After his retirement he moved to Haifa in Israel, where he was visiting professor in 1972/73.

Michael Landmann was married to the writer and journalist Salcia Landmann , born in 1939 . Passweg. Their son is the lawyer Valentin Landmann .

Works (selection)

  • Socratism as ethics of values. Submitted as a dissertation to the high philosophical-historical faculty of the University of Basel in order to obtain a doctorate. Dissertation publisher Knobel, Dornach (Sol.) 1943.
  • Problem. Ignorance and desire for knowledge in the philosophical consciousness. Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen 1949.
  • Elenkik and Maieutik . Three treatises on ancient psychology . Bouvier, Bonn 1950.
  • Knowledge and experience. Phenomenological Studies. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1951.
  • Spirit and life. Varia Nietzscheana. Bouvier, Bonn 1951.
  • as Michael Moritz: Atlantiden. Poems . Bloch, Berlin 1952.
  • The age as fate. The intellectual-historical category of the epoch. Publishing house for law and society, Basel 1956.
  • The animal in the Jewish directive . Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1959.
  • Man as creator and creature of culture. Historical and social anthropology , Munich, Basel: E. Reinhardt, 1961.
  • De homine. Man in the mirror of his thought . Orbis academicus 1/9, Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1962.
  • Plurality and antinomy. Cultural foundations of emotional conflicts . Reinhardt, Munich 1963.
  • The absolute poetry. Essays on Philosophical Poetics . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1963.
  • Original image and creative act. To the platonic-biblical conversation . Nymphenburger, Munich 1966.
  • The End of the Individual - Anthropological Sketches . Klett, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-12-905240-2
  • The Israel pseudo of the pseudo-left . Colloquium, Berlin 1971. New edition with a foreword by Henryk M. Broder and an afterword by Jan Gerber and Anja Worm: ça ira, Freiburg 2013.
  • Philosophy - its mission and its areas , German Book Association, Berlin Darmstadt Vienna, no year (1972).
  • Alienating reason . Klett, Stuttgart 1975.
  • Charge against common sense . Klett, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Redesign of the Hebrew script. Bouvier, Bonn 1977.
  • Memories of Stefan George. His friendship with Julius and Edith Landmann . Castrum Peregrini Presse, Amsterdam 1980.
  • Jewish miniatures. Volume 1: Messianic Metaphysics. Volume 2: Israeli Polemics and Diaries. Bouvier, Bonn 1982.
  • Philosophical anthropology. Human self-interpretation in the past and present . 5th edition de Gruyter Berlin a. a. 1982.
  • Figures around Stefan George . 2 volumes. Castrum Peregrini Presse, Amsterdam 1982–1988.
  • What is philosophy 4th edition. Bouvier, Bonn 1985.
  • Fundamental anthropology . Bouvier, Bonn 1979.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Hupe: "Become who you want to be." Creativity and Teleology in Michael Landmann's Cultural Anthropology. Bouvier, Bonn 1991.
  • Jan Gerber, Anja Worm: Without a contact person. Michael Landmann's 'Israel Pseudos of the Pseudo Left' . Epilogue to Michael Landmann, Das Israelpseudos der Pseudolinken (1971), new ed. by Jan Gerber and Anja Worm, Freiburg i. Br. 2013, pp. 115-139.
  • Jörn Bohr, Matthias Wunsch (ed.): Cultural anthropology as a philosophy of creativity. Michael Landmann in context. (Philosophical Anthropology - Topics and Positions, Vol. 12) Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2015.

Festschriften

  • Klaus-Jürgen Grundner, Peter Krausser, Heinrich Weiß: Man as a historical being. Anthropology and history. Festschrift for Michael Landmann on his 60th birthday. Klett, Stuttgart 1974.
  • Klaus-Jürgen Grundner, Dieter Holz, Heinrich Kleiner, Heinrich Weiß: Excerpt and prophecy. Commemorative publication for Michael Landmann. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1984
Place of death Haifa