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Franz
Brentano 1838
- 1917
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 The
School of Franz Brentano (Nijhoff International
Philosophy Series, Vol 52) by Liliana Albertazzi (Editor),
Massimo Libardi (Editor), Roberto Poli (Editor)
The School of Franz Brentano provides a fascinating
picture of both the life and thought of Franz Brentano and his main
pupils. The volume is divided into three sections, presenting: 1. a
detailed reconstruction of Brentano's life and contributions to
philosophy; 2. separate studies of Brentano's most important students
(von Ehrenfels, Husserl, Marty, Meinong, Stumpf, and Twardowski); 3.
separate studies of the main philosophical problems or areas of
Brentano's writings. The book is the first wide reconstruction of
Brentano's intellectual legacy, with topics such as philosophy of mind,
ontology, philosophy of language, logic and theory of values.
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Page maintained by Scott Moore. Includes links
to introductions, primary sources, major pupils, etc.
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Franz Brentano (1838-1917), psychologist and philosopher,
focused on the "intentionality" of mental states, by which he
meant that thoughts are about their objects.
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Revised version of: “Kafka and Brentano: A Study in
Descriptive Psychology”, in Barry Smith (ed.), Structure
and Gestalt: Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her
Successor States,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981, 113–61.
There is a narrow thread in the vast literature on
Kafka which pertains to Kafka’s knowledge of philosophy, and more
precisely to Kafka’s use in his fictional writings of some of the main
ideas of Franz Brentano. Kafka attended courses in philosophy at the
Charles University given by Brentano’s students Anton Marty and
Christian von Ehrenfels, and was for several years a member of a
discussion-group organized by orthodox adherents of the Brentanian
philosophy in Prague. The present essay summarizes what is known about
Kafka’s relations to the Brentanist movement. It draws on Brentanian
ideas on the evidence of inner perception, on oblique consciousness, on
active introspection, on correct and incorrect judgment, and on
consciousness as a species of inner tribunal, in order to throw light on
central features of Kafka’s writings, including stylistic features...
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