Aron Gurwitsch

Aron Gurwitsch ( born January 17, 1901 in Vilnius, Lithuania, † June 25, 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland ) was a native of Lithuania American philosopher.

Biography

The Gurwitsch family moved in 1906 to Gdansk, where in 1919 he graduated from high school. Then he began in Berlin to study philosophy and German literature. In 1920 he moved to Frankfurt am Main to there first medicine and mathematics, later also to study philosophy again. In 1928 his dissertation at Moritz Geiger in Göttingen. Until his emigration in 1933, he worked for the Prussian Ministry of Science and as an assistant to Moritz Geiger in Göttingen. He wrote a regular contributor to the " Frankfurt Jewish Community sheet".

Between 1933 and 1940, Gurvich has taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. During this time he made ​​the acquaintance of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau -Ponty. Given the threat of German invasion, he left Europe in 1940 and immigrated to the United States.

After spending two years as a guest student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he was employed as a physics lecturer at Harvard University. In 1947 he was visiting professor of mathematics at Wheaton College in Norton, in 1948 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics in Waltham. From 1951 he was an associate professor at Brandeis University.

In 1958 he returned as a visiting professor returned to the University of Cologne. A year later he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Political and Sozialwissenschaftem at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Since 1929 he was married to Alice star.

Work

The main work of Gurwitsch (Eng. The field of consciousness ) refers to the 1957 published work Théorie du champ de la conscience. In this Gurvich linked aspects of the phenomenology and Gestalt theory to a theory of consciousness and perception.

Works (selection)

  • Phenomenology of the subject and of the pure Ego (1928 )
  • Théorie du champ de la conscience (Eng. The Field of Consciousness ) ( 1957)
  • The concept of consciousness in Kant and Husserl (1964 )
  • Leibniz: Philosophy of panlogism (1974 )
  • The interpersonal encounters in the world milieu ( Q4 1931, Habilitation Thesis )
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