Moritz Geiger

Moritz Geiger ( born June 26, 1880 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 9, 1937 in Seal Harbor, Maine, United States) was a German philosopher ( phenomenologist ) and provided significant contributions to the philosophy of mathematics, aesthetics and psychology.

Biography

Moritz Geiger studied law in Munich in 1898, then in 1899 literary history, after all, as Paul F. Linke, 1900 Philosophy and Psychology at Theodor Lipps. 1901-1902 he studied experimental psychology with Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig. In 1904 he returned to Munich and joined the students circle around Lipps alongside pledges, Reinach, Conrad Fischer, Hildebrand, inter alia, 1906 Geiger assisted the lectures of Edmund Husserl in Göttingen. He became a member of the Munich circle of phenomenologists next Reinach, Conrad Fischer, Max Scheler and pledges. His habilitation he submitted in 1907. With the Munich Husserl Circle 1913-30 he gave the Yearbook of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research out. In 1915 he became associate professor in Munich. After the First World War 1923-33 he taught as professor in Göttingen. Under the Nazi dictatorship, he was forced to emigrate to the United States because of his Jewish ancestry in 1933. There he taught at Vassar College in New York and at Stanford University.

Among his more famous students include, among others, Klaus Berger, Hans -Georg Gadamer, Walter Benjamin and Karl Lowith.

Moritz Geiger was a nephew Lazarus Geiger.

Teaching

Geiger understood as a science of aesthetics aesthetic value and represented a " realism of the immediate setting" that should be " the pure self-givenness " of things to come words.

Works (selection)

  • Notes on the psychology of feeling and emotion elements compounds. In: Archives for the entire psychology. 1904, pp. 233-288.
  • Methodological and experimental contributions to the quantity theory. In: Theodor Lipps ( eds.): Psychological investigations. Volume I, 1907, pp. 325-522.
  • On the problem of empathy mood. In: Journal of aesthetics. Volume 6, 1911, pp. 1-42.
  • The consciousness of feelings. In: Munich Philosophical treatises. 1911, pp. 125-162.
  • Contributions to the phenomenology of aesthetic pleasure. In: Yearbook of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Volume 1, 1913, pp. 567-684.
  • The unconscious and the psychic reality. In: Yearbook of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Volume 4, 1921, pp. 1-138.
  • The philosophical significance of the theory of relativity. Lecture 1921.
  • Systematic axioms of Euclidean geometry. In 1924.
  • The Philosophical Attitudes and the problem of Essence and Subsistence. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy. Havard 1927, pp. 272-278.
  • Approaches to aesthetics. The New Spirit Verlag, Leipzig 1928.
  • The reality of science and metaphysics. Hildesheim 1930, reprint: Olms 1966.
  • Alexander Pfänder methodological position. In: New Munich Philosophical treatises. 1930, pp. 1-16.
  • The importance of art. Access to a substantive value- aesthetics. Information collected, from the estate of added fonts. Edited by Klaus Berger and Wolfhart Henckmann. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7705-0863-7.
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