- Georg Misch
Georg Misch (April 5, 1878 in
Berlin ,Germany – June 10, 1965 inGöttingen ) was a Germanphilosopher .Life and Work
He worked as a
professor inMarburg andGöttingen 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 andMartin Heidegger , which evaluatedphenomenology 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-philosophicalhermeneutics .elected 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.External links
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* [http://www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca/grondinj/pdf/Grondin_Misch_und_die_Hermeneutik.pdf|Jean Grondin, "Georg Misch und die Universalität der Hermeneutik: Logik oder Rhetorik?"]
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