Stephan Witasek
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
- Literature by and about Stephan Witasek in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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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 |