Stephan Witasek

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Stephan Witasek (born May 17, 1870 in Vienna , † April 18, 1915 in Graz ) was a representative of the Graz School of Experimental Psychology and Object Theory.

Life

Stephan Witasek completed his habilitation in philosophy in 1899 , and was initially a librarian at the University of Graz and worked under Alexius Meinong in the psychological laboratory, which he was appointed head of in 1914. He died a short time later of a stomach ailment.

Witasek's starting point for his conception and disposition psychology is the distinction between non-visual and clear ideas. It was his declared aim to make object theory fruitful for aesthetics .

A blind person, for example, can also have a non-visual idea of ​​a color by just imagining the color. Today in education for the blind one likes to speak of empty words. If a color is to be presented clearly, the person presenting it must also want to and be able to present this color clearly. If both prerequisites are met, the non-visual idea turns into a clear one.

Witasek was like John Volkelt a critical advocate of the German-speaking by Theodor Lipps outgoing theory of empathy , are "felt" that their own feelings or movement impulses in the aesthetic object which aesthetic perceptions attributes to the fact.

Works

  • Physiological or experimental psychology in high schools (with Höfler), 1898
  • Psychological school experiments (with Höfler), 1900
  • Basics of general aesthetics, Leipzig 1904
  • Psychology for ethical education, 1907
  • Psychology of the spatial perception of the eye. Heidelberg, Carl Winters University Bookstore, 1910
  • Contributions to the psychology of complexions, magazine f. Psychol. Of the sense organs, vol. 14
  • Psychol. Analysis of the esthete. Introduction, magazine f. Psychol. Of the sense organs, vol. 25
  • Basics of Psychology, Leipzig, Meiner, 1921

literature

  • Stephan Witasek in memory. In: Zeitschrift für Psychologie 73 (1915), pp. 173 ff.
  • Eisler, Kurt: Article: Witasek, Stephan. In: Philosophers' Lexicon, p. 821 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: Grazer Tagblatt, vol. 25, no. 108, April 19, 1915, p. 2 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Witasek, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Representative of the Graz School for Experimental Psychology
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1915
Place of death Graz