Moritz Geiger

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Moritz Geiger (born June 26, 1880 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 9, 1937 in Seal Harbor , Maine , USA ) was a German philosopher ( phenomenologist ) and made significant contributions to the philosophy of mathematics, aesthetics and psychology.

biography

Moritz Geiger studied law in Munich in 1898, then literary history in 1899, and finally, like Paul F. Linke , in 1900 philosophy and psychology with Theodor Lipps . 1901–1902 he studied experimental psychology with Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig . In 1904 he returned to Munich and became a member of the student group around Lipps in addition to Pfänder, Reinach, Conrad, Fischer, Hildebrand and others. a. In 1906 Geiger assisted Edmund Husserl's lectures in Göttingen . He became a member of the Munich circle of phenomenologists alongside Reinach, Conrad, Fischer, Max Scheler and Pfänder. He submitted his habilitation in 1907. With the Munich Husserl Circle he published the yearbook for philosophy and phenomenological research from 1913-30 . In 1915 he became an associate professor in Munich. After the First World War he taught as a full professor in Göttingen from 1923–33. Under the Nazi dictatorship, he had to emigrate to the USA in 1933 due to his Jewish descent. There he taught at Vassar College in New York and at Stanford University .

His well-known students include Klaus Berger , Hans-Georg Gadamer , Walter Benjamin and Karl Löwith . He also influenced the mathematician Saunders Mac Lane .

Moritz Geiger was a nephew of Lazarus Geiger .

Teaching

Geiger understands aesthetics to be a science of aesthetic value and advocated a "realism of the immediate attitude", which should allow "the pure self-givenness" of things to be expressed.

Works (selection)

  • Notes on the psychology of the emotional elements and emotional connections . In: Archives for the whole of psychology . 1904, pp. 233-288.
  • Methodological and experimental contributions to quantity theory . In: Theodor Lipps (ed.): Psychological investigations . Volume I, 1907, pp. 325-522.
  • On the problem of mood empathy . In: Journal for Aesthetics . Volume 6, 1911, pp. 1-42.
  • The awareness of feelings . In: Munich Philosophical Treatises . 1911, pp. 125-162.
  • Contributions to the phenomenology of aesthetic enjoyment . In: Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . Volume 1, 1913, pp. 567-684.
  • The unconscious and psychic reality . In: Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . Volume 4, 1921, pp. 1-138.
  • The philosophical meaning of the theory of relativity . Lecture 1921.
  • Systematic axiomatics of Euclidean geometry . 1924.
  • The Philosophical Attitudes and the Problems of Essence and Subsistence . In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy . Harvard 1927, pp. 272-278.
  • Approaches to aesthetics . Der Neue Geist Verlag, Leipzig 1928.
  • The reality of the sciences and metaphysics . Hildesheim 1930, reprint: Olms 1966.
  • Alexander Pfander's methodical position . In: New Munich Philosophical Treatises . 1930, pp. 1-16.
  • The importance of art. Approaches to a material aesthetic of values. Collected writings supplemented from the estate . Edited by Klaus Berger and Wolfhart Henckmann. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7705-0863-7 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Colin McLarty : The Last Mathematician from Hilbert's Göttingen: Saunders Mac Lane as Philosopher of Mathematics . In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science . tape 58 , no. 1 . Oxford University Press , 2007, pp. 77-112 , doi : 10.1093 / bjps / axl030 .
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German phenomenologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1937
Place of death Seal Harbor , Maine , USA