Erich Rothacker

Erich Rothacker (March 12, 1888 – August 11, 1965) was a German philosopher, a leading exponent of philosophical anthropology.

Erich Rothacker
Born(1881-03-12)12 March 1881
Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
Died(1965-08-11)11 August 1965
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
OccupationPhilosopher

Rothacker's first major work, Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920), presents the view that actual historical individuals, whose cognitive equipment is partially created by a specific cultural community while at the same time constantly modifying it, are the elements that constitute the subject of knowledge, rather than a timeless universal entity as it is represented by Descartes or Locke.

Works
  • Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (1920)
  • Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920)
  • Die Schichten der Persönlichkeit, 1938
  • Mensch und Geschichte, 1944
  • Probleme der Kulturanthropologie (Problems of the Anthropology of Culture, 1948)
gollark: I'm pretty sure it's not, though.
gollark: Why not deploy worry mirror technology?
gollark: The only *acceptable* way to describe colors is as a list of tuples of (inbound light frequency, photon count).
gollark: If you look at a color space diagram you might just go "wow, those are just undifferentiated cyans, why would I care about those", but this is merely due to your monitor bad.
gollark: Interestingly, your monitor cannot display a *worrying* quantity of cyans.
  • Erich Rothacker in the German National Library catalogue
  • Leonore Bazinek (1994). "Erich Rothacker". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 8. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 752–756. ISBN 3-88309-053-0.


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