Johannes Volkelt
Johannes Immanuel Volkelt (21 July 1848 in Lipnik near Biala, Austrian Galicia – 8 May 1930 in Leipzig) was a German philosopher.[1]
Biography
He was educated at Vienna, Jena, and Leipzig. He became professor of philosophy at Basel in 1883 and at Würzburg in 1889, and in 1894 was made professor of philosophy and pedagogy in Leipzig.[1]
Philosophy
In philosophy his main efforts have been his opposition to positivism and his attempt at a new metaphysical theory. His independent position was arrived at after successive periods in which he followed Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Hartmann.[1]
Dream interpretation
Volkelt spent time analysing the meaning of dreams, and captured his analysis in Die Traumphantasie. He is cited several times in The Interpretation of Dreams as a foundation for Sigmund Freud's claims.
Volkelt believed that elements of a dream were directly related to the body of the dreamer, such as a dreamed roaring stove representing the dreamer's lungs.[2]
Works
His more important works are:[1]
- Pantheismus und Individualismus (1871)
- Das Unbewußte und der Pessimismus (1872)
- Die Traumphantasie (1875)
- Der Symbolbegriff in der neuesten Ästhetik (1876)
- Immanuel Kants Erkenntnistheorie nach ihren Grundprinzipien analysiert (1879)
- Über die Möglichkeit einer Metaphysik (1884)
- Erfahrung und Denken. Kritische Grundlegung der Erkenntnistheorie (1886; became a standard textbook on epistemology, especially due to its thorough examination of the concept of 'experience'. Reprinted with introduction and Index by Harald Schwaetzer in 2000)
- Franz Grillparzer als Dichter des Tragischen (1888)
- Vorträge zur Einführung in die Philosophie der Gegenwart (1892)
- Psychologische Streitfragen (1893)
- Ästhetische Zeitfragen (1894)
- Ästhetik des Tragischen (1897)
- Zur Psychologie der ästhetischen Beseelung (1899)
- Arthur Schopenhauer. Seine Persönlichkeit, seine Lehre, sein Glaube (1900)
- Die Kunst des Individualisierens in d. Dichtung Jean Pauls (1902)
- Die entwicklungsgeschichtl. Betrachtungsweise in d. Ästhetik (1902)
- System der Ästhetik (3 volumes; I. 1905, II. 1910, III. 1912)
- Die Quellen der menschlichen Gewißheit (1906)
- Zwischen Dichtung und Philosophie, gesammelte Aufsätze (1908)
- Gewißheit und Wahrheit (1918)
- Phänomenologie und Metaphysik der Zeit (1928)
Notes
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- German male writers
- People from Bielsko-Biała
- People from Austrian Silesia
