Michael Landmann

Michael Landmann (born 16 December 1913 in Basel, † January 25, 1984 in Haifa) was a Jewish philosopher Swiss.

Biography

Michael Landmann was a son of the economist Julius countryman and the philosopher Edith Landmann. His brother is the classical philologist Georg Peter Landmann. His parents were among the friends of Stefan George, and they had contact with the George circle.

Because his father in Kiel had been professionally active, compatriot visited in this city from 1927 to 1933 a secondary school. After returning to Switzerland, he studied at the University of Basel, philosophy, psychology and German literature at Herman Schmalenbach, Paul and Walter Häberlin Muschg. In 1939 he obtained his PhD with a thesis on the topic The Socratic ethics as a value. After an Assist joining Schmalenbach and Karl Jaspers to compatriot 1949 Habilitation at Otto Friedrich Bollnow in Mainz. Michael Landmann was from 1951 to 1978 professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. His main field was the philosophical anthropology.

Michael Landmann was married since 1939 with Salcia countryman, born Passweg. Their son is a lawyer Valentin Landmann.

Works (selection)

  • Elenktik and maieutics. Three Essays on the ancient psychology. Bouvier, Bonn 1950
  • As Michael Moritz: Atlanteans. Poems. Bloch, Berlin 1952
  • The animal in the Jewish transfer. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1959
  • Man as creator and creation of culture. History and social anthropology, Munich, Basel: E. Reinhardt, 1961
  • De homine. The man in the mirror of his thought. Orbis Academicus 1/9, Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1962
  • Plurality and antinomy. Cultural Foundations of psychological conflicts. Reinhardt, Munich 1963
  • The Absolute seal. Essays on philosophical poetics. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1963
  • Original image and creative act. For Platonic- Biblical conversation. Nymphenburg, Munich 1966
  • The Israel nick name of the fake left. Colloquium, Berlin 1971 edition with a preface by Henryk M. Broder and an afterword by Jan Gerber and Anja Worm. Ça ira, Freiburg 2013
  • Philosophy - its mission and its territories, German Book Association, Berlin Darmstadt Vienna, without year ( 1972)
  • Alienating reason. Klett, Stuttgart 1975
  • Indictment against reason. Klett, Stuttgart 1976
  • The end of the individual - Anthropological sketches. Klett, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-12-905240-2
  • Memories of Stefan George. His friendship with Julius and Edith Landmann. Castrum Peregrini Press, Amsterdam 1980.
  • Philosophical anthropology. Human self-interpretation in history and Gegenwart.5. Ed de Gruyter Berlin et al 1982
  • Figures around Stefan George. 2 vols. Castrum Peregrini Press, Amsterdam 1982-1988.
  • What is Philosophy? 4th edition. Bouvier, Bonn 1985.
  • Fundamental anthropology. Bouvier, Bonn 1979

Commemorative

  • Klaus -Jürgen Grundner, Peter Krausser, Henry White: Man as a historical being. Anthropology and History. Festschrift for Michael Landmann 60th birthday. Klett, Stuttgart 1974.
  • Klaus -Jürgen Grundner, Dieter Holz, Henry Small, Henry White: excerpt and prophecy. In memory of Michael Landmann. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2001
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