William S. Haas

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William S. Haas , also: Willy Haas , Wilhelm Haas (born February 13, 1883 in Nuremberg ; † January 3, 1956 in New York ) was a German- American philosopher , psychologist and sociologist .

Haas studies philosophy , psychology and sociology in Berlin, Munich and Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1910 from the University of Munich . The title of his dissertation was On Authenticity and Inauthenticity of Feelings. In 1919 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne .

From 1920 to 1923 Haas was a private lecturer in social sciences at the University of Cologne and then taught philosophy, psychology and sociology at the Technical University of Berlin until he was forced to emigrate as a Jew in 1933, from 1927 as an associate professor . In addition, he was head of studies at the German University of Politics in Berlin. After 1934 he taught at the University of Tehran .

William S. Haas lived in the United States from 1940 until his death. He taught at the University of Colorado (Denver) until 1942 and at the Near and Middle East Institute at Columbia University in New York from 1950 to 1953 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The psychic world of things . F. Cohen, Bonn 1921.
  • Strength and appearance. Outline of a dynamic of the psychic . F. Cohen, Bonn 1922.
  • What is European civilization? And what is its future? Oxford university press, London 1929
  • Iran . Columbia University Press, New York 1946 (further editions 1956 and 1966).
  • The March of Philosophy of History and Its Crucial Problem Today. In: The Philosophical Review. LVIII, March 1949.
  • The Destiny of the Mind. East and West. 1956.
  • Eastern and Western thinking. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1967 ( Rowohlt's German Encyclopedia , 246/247).

literature

  • Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933-1945. Dissertation. 1989. Lit, Münster, Hamburg 1991, p. 29. (Here year of birth erroneously 1882; first name: Karl Wilhelm.)
  • Ulrike May: Willy Haas: A young Munich philosopher in analysis with Freud . In: Luzifer-Amor 63 (2019), pp. 35-57.
  • Margret Kaiser-El-Safti: About William Haas: Eastern and Western thinking in a cultural psychology. In: Hannes Stubbe (ed.): 100 years of psychology at the University of Cologne. A commemorative publication . Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2019, pp. 64–82.

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SURNAME Haas, William S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haas, Willy; Haas, Willi; Haas, Wilhelm; Haas, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, psychologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1956
Place of death New York City