Herbert Witzenmann

Herbert joke man ( born February 16, 1905 in Pforzheim, † September 24, 1988 in Heidelberg) was a German entrepreneur, anthroposophist and writer. In his main works deal mainly with questions of epistemology and aesthetics.

Life

Herbert joke man grew up with his younger brother, Walter, the son of a Pforzheim factory. His desire to become a pianist, he could not be achieved due to a tendon weakness. In 1924 he met through the mediation of Walter Johannes Stein in Stuttgart, Rudolf Steiner, from whom he received pioneering influence on his life. 1928 published his first poems joke man; In 1930 he married the poet Maria Wozak. In the 1930s he studied under philosophy of Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg University. From 1938 to 1966 he worked in the management of the family business - a manufacturer of metal hoses, bellows on and expansion joints - with.

In addition to and after his professional career, he became involved in the General Anthroposophical Society. From 1948 to 1951 he headed the magazine The three, in 1963 he was appointed Albert Steffen to the Board of the General Anthroposophical Society. As part of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach, he took over the management of the " Section for the Spiritual Striving of Youth " and " Section for the Social Sciences ". Due to a " boycott " Herbert Witzmanns - one not carried along by him Decision of the Board of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum from 1966/68, editions of the Rudolf Steiner- estate association freely offering for sale again at the Goetheanum - he led his activities "according to its considers " the task of the School of continued until his death in 1988 within the proposed by him in 1973 seminar for free youth work, arts and humanities Sozialorganik.

In many of his works, especially in the 1983 structure phenomenology - "structural phenomenology " he called his theory of knowledge - it is the relationship between consciousness and reality. Following Rudolf Steiner's major work The Philosophy of Freedom Herbert joke man describes the human cognitive process as one by the union of percept and concept as they take place, non-imaging a given reality, but the reality creatively generating process.

Works

  • The virtues, 1972
  • Intuition and observation, Part 1: Capturing the Spirit in the experience of thinking, 1977
  • Intuition and observation, Part 2: Liberation of cognition. Recognition of freedom, 1978
  • The philosophy of freedom as the basis of social aesthetic design, 1979
  • Inheritance and reincarnation of the spirit, 1981
  • What is meditation?, 1982
  • Anthroposophy and parapsychology, 1982
  • Structure phenomenology. Preconscious shape forming in the knowing Wirklichkeitenthüllen, 1983
  • Mind blindness and Idea Show, 1985
  • Student body in the sign of the Rose Cross, 1985
  • The presuppositions of anthroposophy, 1986
  • Goethe's universal aesthetic impulse, 1987
  • The primal concept. Rudolf Steiner civilization principle and the task of the Anthroposophical Society, 1988
  • The philosophy of freedom as the basis of artistic creation, 1988

Posthumously published:

  • Meaning and being. The common origin of form and movement, 1989
  • The abandoned apartments. Poems Vol I, 1991
  • The vines ship. Essays, 1993
  • The category teaching of Rudolf Steiner and other writings, 1994
  • The poetry as a socially organic force in Novalis, 1996
  • The candle. A story, 1997
  • The Chancellor. A drama, 1997
  • The Egomorphose language, 2003
  • Verhuell your mind. Poems Vol II, 2003
  • From the very basis of humanity, 2004
  • Light mesh. An Autobiography in Letters from the years 1969-1971, 2005
  • The just price. A basic question of social life, 2005
  • Silver spoon. An autobiographical novel, 2005 ( as " Paul Oudeis " )
  • Art as a native language of mankind, 2008
  • Hinterlass'ne track, selection of poems, 2010
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