Nathan Rotenstreich

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Nathan Rotenstreich , Hebrew נתן רוטנשטרייך, (born March 31, 1914 in Sambor , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died October 11, 1993 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli philosopher.

Nathan Rotenstreich. Signature 1983

Life

Nathan Rotenstreich was a son of the teacher, Zionist and Polish politician Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich (1882-1938). In 1918 the family moved to Lwów , now in Poland , where he attended high school. Rotenstreich was an active member of the Zionist youth organization Gordonia , which sent him in 1932 to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Palestine . His father also moved to Jerusalem in 1935. He became a member of the socialist Mapai party and confidante of David Ben Gurion , later as an opponent of his realpolitik, he founded the short-lived split-off Min-Ha-Yesod with Pinchas Lawon in 1961 in the wake of the Lawon affair . Despite the party membership, he saw himself as an independent intellectual.

Rotenstreich studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate in 1938 with a dissertation on Marx's concept of "substance". He then studied at the University of Chicago and from 1949 worked again as an assistant at the Hebrew University. He was appointed professor in 1955 and was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy from 1958 to 1962 and then rector of the university from 1965 to 1969. In 1959 he was accepted into the Israel Academy of Sciences and in 1986 became its vice-president. Rotenstreich wrote 80 books and more than 600 articles in leading international publications of the philosophers, he wrote articles for the Encyclopaedia Hebraica , of whose editors he was one of the editors. In the Philosophy of History section he was a participant in the International Congress of Philosophy in Vienna in 1968 , he was a key member of the Institut International de Philosophie in Paris and also helped organize the “Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions” in Santa Barbara , CA. .

Rotenstreich was a leading international researcher of the philosophy of German idealism, especially Immanuel Kant . He also published in English. For the translation of Kant's three “Reviews” into Hebrew, he received the Chernichovsky Prize in 1964, the Israel Prize in 1963 and the Bialik Prize in 1991 .

Rotenstreich was an influential education politician in Israel who headed the Education Council's budget planning group between 1973 and 1979. He defended the autonomy of the universities, but at the same time committed them to Israel's state goals. In the international public he defended Israel's right to self-defense against threats from Arab states.

Fonts (selection)

  • Zionism: Past and Present. Essays. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007.
  • Karlfried founder , Nathan Rotenstreich: Enlightenment and Haskala from a Jewish and non-Jewish perspective. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990.
  • Reason and its manifestations: a study on Kant and Hegel. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1996.
  • Time and meaning in history. Reidel, Dordrecht 1987.
  • Reflection and action. Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1985.
  • Legislation and exposure: critical analysis of differences between the philosophy of Kant and Hegel. Bouvier, Bonn 1984.
  • Ways of recognizing the world. Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1983.
  • Theory and practice: an essay in human intentionalities. Nijhoff, The Hague 1977.
  • From substance to subject: studies in Hegel. Nijhoff, The Hague 1974.
  • Experience and its systematization. Nijhoff, Den Haag 1972, 2. and enlarged ed.
  • Basic Problems of Marx's Philosophy. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis 1965.
  • The recurring pattern. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1963.
  • Min Ha-Yesod, Kovetz. 1962.

literature

  • History, memory and action: International Conference in Memory of Nathan Rotenstreich, Jerusalem 1994. Israel Acad. of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem 1996
  • Abraham Zvi Baron: Rotenstreich, Natan. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 1972, Volume 14, Col. 324 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Avi Bareli, Yossef Gorny: An “Inside Intellectual”: Remarks on the Public Thought of Nathan Rotenstreich. In: Nathan Rotenstreich. Zionism: Past and Present. 2007, pp. 1-47.
  2. ↑ Some Arguments for a Comprehensive Approach to the Problem of History. In: Files of the 14th International Congress of Philosophy: Vienna, 2.-9. Sept. 1968. 4. Ethics and philosophy of values; Aesthetics and philosophy of art; Natural philosophy. Herder, Vienna 1969, pp. 559-562.
personal data
SURNAME Rotenstreich, Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES נתן רוטנשטרייך (lang-he)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Sambor , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1993
Place of death Jerusalem