Kurt Rudolf Fischer

Kurt Rudolf Fischer ( born February 26, 1922 in Vienna, † March 22, 2014 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an Austrian philosopher. After he had emigrated to Shanghai in 1938 to Brno and 1940, he emigrated in 1949 to the United States in 1979 and returned to his native city of Vienna.

Life

Fischer attended the grammar school in Vienna. After the Anschluss he fled as a 16- year-old to relatives in Brno in Czechoslovakia. As also the Nazi army invaded, succeeded him and his parents nachgekommenen just an exit visa to Shanghai to get, one of the last refuges who received at that time still Jewish refugees. He suggested there with all sorts of jobs as a translator, night watchman and Boxer by - in those years he became Chinese boxing champion. Among his friends in Shanghai belonged Leo Roth.

After the Second World War, he took part in the St. John's University in Shanghai on his studies. Due to its excellent academic achievements he received in 1949 the entry permit to the USA, where he took up the study of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and graduated with a PhD. Here he became friends with two years jüngereren directly from Austria who came to Berkeley philosopher Paul Feyerabend. 1967 to 1980 he was professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Millersville, Pennsylvania from 1979 to 2008 he was an honorary professor at the University of Vienna. In 2000 he took the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel true. A student Fischer, the Austrian philosopher Volker Zotz, who in the preface to his dissertation indicates grateful it. On March 22, 2014 Fischer died at the age of 92 after a long illness in a nursing home in the United States.

Honors

  • 2000 Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna
  • 2002 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class

Writings

  • Contemporary European Philosophers (1963 ), Berkeley, 2nd edition 1968, 3rd edition 1972
  • Franz Brentano 's Philosophy of " evidence", Berkeley 1964
  • Nietzsche and the 20th century. Existentialism, National Socialism, Psychoanalysis, Vienna Circle, Vienna 1986
  • Philosophy from Vienna. Essays on analytical and Austrian philosophy to the world views of the Vienna Fin -de- Siècle and Biographical Berkeley, Shanghai and Vienna, Vienna -Salzburg 1991
  • Austrian philosophy of Brentano to Wittgenstein. A reading book. UTB 2086, Vienna 1999
  • " Youth and escape to Shanghai ", in: Wolf Dietrich - Smith Kowarzik (ed.) clashes with the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures (1999-2005), Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89958-044-3
  • Stanley Cavell, The philosophy. Essays. Second, enlarged and revised edition. With a new introduction edited by Ludwig Nagl and Kurt Rudolf Fischer, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-05-003421-1. ( First Edition: .. . According to the philosophy of Stanley Cavell essay with an interview of the author and a review appendix Edited by Kurt Rudolf Fischer and Ludwig Nagl, Vienna 1987. )
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