Georg Misch (; 5 April 1878, in

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– 10 June 1965, in

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) was a German

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Life

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descent, Misch was the pupil and son-in-law of

Wilhelm Dilthey Wilhelm Dilthey (; ; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, w ...

. Misch attempted to further develop Dilthey's life-philosophical

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, in particular in relation to the study of

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, comparative philosophy and

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. Misch edited a number of volumes of Dilthey's works. Misch concluded his studies with Dilthey in Berlin in 1900 with a dissertation on ''Die philosophische Begründung des Positivismus in den Schriften von D’Alembert und Turgot''. He worked as a

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and

before retiring under pressure from the National Socialist government in 1935. He went into exile to the UK, living there from 1939 until 1946. Misch returned to Göttingen in 1946 and continued to work there until his death in 1965. His students include Otto Friedrich Bollnow and Josef König.

Work

Georg Misch wrote one of the first extended critical appropriations of

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and

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centu ...

, which evaluated

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from the perspective of Dilthey's philosophy, in ''Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung der Diltheyschen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl'', Leipzig 1930 (3. Aufl. Stuttgart 1964). Misch's ''Der Weg in die Philosophie'' (1926) is a pioneering work in comparative philosophy. He developed a hermeneutic logic that was later published as ''Der Aufbau der Logik auf dem Boden der Philosophie des Lebens''.See Grondin, Jean. "Georg Misch und die Universalität der Hermeneutik: Logik oder Rhetorik? ''Dilthey-Jahrbuch'' 11 (1997-1998), 48-63. He is mostly known for his monumental ''Geschichte der Autobiographie'' (''History of Autobiography''), in several volumes, beginning in 1907. The last volume was published posthumously in 1969.

Selected works

* ''Geschichte der Autobiographie'', zwei Bände, Leipzig/Berlin 1907 (Bd. I, 3. Aufl. 1969; Bd. II, 2. Aufl. 1955). Translated in English as ''A History of Autobiography in Antiquity (Part 1)'', London 2003. * ''Der Weg in die Philosophie,'' Leipzig 1926 (2. Aufl. 1950). Translated in English as ''The Dawn of Philosophy: A Philosophical Primer'', Cambridge, MA 1951. * ''Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung der Diltheyschen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl'', Leipzig 1930 (3. Aufl. Stuttgart 1964) * ''Der Aufbau der Logik auf dem Boden der Philosophie des Lebens'', Freiburg 2002.

References

External links

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Otto Friedrich Bollnow, "Lebensphilosophie und Logik: Georg Misch und der Göttinger Kreis"

Jean Grondin, "Georg Misch und die Universalität der Hermeneutik: Logik oder Rhetorik?"

Friedrich Kümmel, "Zum Verhältnis von Logik, Metaphysik und geschichtlicher Weltansicht bei Georg Misch"
*Massimo Mezzanzanica, Georg Misch. Dalla filosofia della vita alla logica ermeneutica https://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/scheda_libro.aspx?Id=9454
Eric S. Nelson, "Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of Philosophy"
* Nelson, Eric S. (2017)
''Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought''
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