Klaus Hartmann (philosopher)
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Klaus Hartmann (September, 5 1925 in Berlin – June, 30 1991 in Tübingen) was a German philosopher and university lecturer.
Life
[edit]After being a prisoner of war, Hartmann studied philosophy, English and German at the University of Bonn from 1946. He received his doctorate there in 1953 with a thesis on Husserls Einfühlungstheorie auf monadologischer Grundlage, and his habilitation in 1962 with a thesis on Grundzüge der Ontologie Sartres in ihrem Verhältnis zu Hegels Logik. In 1967 he became an associate professor at the University of Bonn; in 1972 he accepted an appointment as a full professor in University of Tübingen.
Hartmann was primarily active in the field of practical philosophy, especially social philosophy. He is considered a Hegelian.[1]
Work and reception
[edit]His book Die Marxsche Theorie. Eine philosophische Untersuchung zu den Hauptschriften (1970) according to Reinhold Aschenberg covers “Marx's theory comprehensively in all relevant phases of development and theoretical pieces”. “Because the analysis, reconstruction and criticism it offers is unsurpassed in its philosophical level”, the book stands out from the philosophical literature on Marx.[2]
Michael Moxter is one of his students.
Selected works in English
[edit]- Hegel: A Non-Metaphysical View, in A. MacIntyre (ed.) Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York: Anchor Books, 101–24.
Selected works in German
[edit]- Sartres Sozialphilosophie. 1966.
- Marxens Kapital in transzendentalphilosophischer Sicht. 1968.
- Die Marxsche Theorie. 1970.
- Politische Philosophie. 1981.
- Die Philosophie J.-P. Sartres. 2 Unters. zu L'être et le néant u. zur Critique de la raison dialectique. 1983.
- Studies in Foundational Philosophy. 1988.
- Hegels Logik. Hrsg. von Olaf Müller. 1999.
Literature on Hartmann
[edit]- Klaus Brinkmann: Klaus Hartmann zum Gedächtnis. In: Perspektiven der Philosophie 19 (1993), S. 343–366.
- Dietmar Koch (Hrsg.): Kategorie und Kategorialität. Historisch-systematische Untersuchungen zum Begriff der Kategorie im philosophischen Denken. Festschrift für Klaus Hartmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-88479-513-9 (mit Bibliographie).
- Terry Pinkard: Klaus Hartmann: A Philosophical Appreciation. In: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 46 (1992) S. 600–608
- Klaus Rosen: Transzendentalphilosophie und kategoriale Theorie des Politischen. Zum Gedenken an Klaus Hartmann. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 17 (1992) S. 35–47
