Georg Misch
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Georg Misch was a German philosopher.
in Marburg
and Göttingen
before retiring under pressure from the National Socialist government in 1935. He went into exile to the UK
, living there from 1939 until 1946. Georg Misch wrote one of the first extended critical appropriations of Edmund Husserl
and Martin Heidegger
, which evaluated phenomenology from the perspective of Dilthey's philosophy, in Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung der Diltheyschen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl, Leipzig 1930 (3. Aufl. Stuttgart 1964). He is mostly known for his monumental Geschichte der Autobiographie (History of Autobiography), in several volumes, beginning in 1907, the last one being published posthumous in 1969. He is the pupil and son-in-law of Wilhelm Dilthey
, some of whose works he edited, and attempted to further develop his life-philosophical hermeneutics.
Life and work
He worked as a professorProfessor
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in Marburg
Marburg
Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...
and Göttingen
Göttingen
Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...
before retiring under pressure from the National Socialist government in 1935. He went into exile to the UK
United Kingdom
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, living there from 1939 until 1946. Georg Misch wrote one of the first extended critical appropriations of Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...
and Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...
, which evaluated phenomenology from the perspective of Dilthey's philosophy, in Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung der Diltheyschen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl, Leipzig 1930 (3. Aufl. Stuttgart 1964). He is mostly known for his monumental Geschichte der Autobiographie (History of Autobiography), in several volumes, beginning in 1907, the last one being published posthumous in 1969. He is the pupil and son-in-law of Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of...
, some of whose works he edited, and attempted to further develop his life-philosophical hermeneutics.
Selected works
- Geschichte der Autobiographie, zwei Bände, Leipzig/Berlin 1907 (Bd. I 3. Aufl. 1969, Bd. II 2. Aufl. 1955). Translated in English as A History of Autobiography in Antiquity (Part 1), London 2003.
- Der Weg in die Philosophie, Leipzig 1926 (2. Aufl. 1950). Translated in English as The Dawn of Philosophy: A Philosophical Primer, Cambridge, MA 1951.
- Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung der Diltheyschen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl, Leipzig 1930 (3. Aufl. Stuttgart 1964)
- Der Aufbau der Logik auf dem Boden der Philosophie des Lebens, Freiburg 2002.