Herman Schmalenbach

Herman Friedrich Schmalenbach (* November 15, 1885 in Breckerfeld, Westphalia, † November 3, 1950 in Basel ) was a German social philosopher and brother of the business economist Eugen Schmalenbach.

Life and work

After studying in Jena, Berlin and Munich, he received his doctorate in 1910 with Rudolf Eucken in Jena. From 1916 to 1917 he taught at the Dürer School, a reform school in Hochwaldhausen in the Vogelsberg. In Göttingen, he habilitated in 1920 and in 1923 there Associate Professor, at the same time he taught from 1928 at the Technical University of Hanover. From 1931 he was called to the University of Basel, where he worked until his death as a Full Professor.

He worked in the field of phenomenological analysis of consciousness and the different types of consciousness; for the Sociology of his introduction of the category of the covenant was significant, based on his experiences as a teacher at the school Dürer. His impressions of the George circle - Schmalenbach was a friend from 1908 to about 1912, Stefan George - he could use for the essay. His son was the art historian Werner Schmalenbach ( 1920-2010 ).

Works

• The being as an object of metaphysics: the first part of a theory of knowledge of metaphysics. 1 The first conception of metaphysics in Western thought, Jena 1910, Dissertation.
• Leibniz, 1921.
• Kant and the philosophy of the present, 1924.
• The Kantian philosophy and religion, 1926.
• The Middle Ages. His concept and nature, 1926.
• Kant's Religion, 1929.
• The ethos and the idea of knowledge, 1933.
• Mind and Being, 1939.