Fritz Mauthner
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Fritz Mauthner | |
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| Born | 22 November 1849 |
| Died | 29 June 1923 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | Charles University in Prague |
Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was an Austro-Hungarian novelist, theatre critic and satirist. He was an exponent of philosophical scepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge and of philosophy of language.
Mauthner was born on 22 November 1849 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family from Horzitz in Bohemia (now Hořice in the Czech Republic).[1] He was the fourth of the six children of Emmanuel and Amalie Mauthner.[2]:viii
He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatt in 1895, but is remembered mainly for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language),[3] published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Ludwig Wittgenstein took several of his ideas from Mauthner,[4] and acknowledges him in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).[5]
Mauthner died in Meersburg am Bodensee on 29 June 1923.[2]:viii
Works[edit]
- Philosophy
- Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, three volumes, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1901–1903.
- Aristoteles, 1904
- Spinoza, 1906
- Die Sprache, 1907
- Wörterbuch der Philosophie, 1910–11, 1923–24
- Schopenhauer, 1911
- Der letzte Tod des Gautama Buddha, 1913
- Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande (4 books), 1920–23
- Muttersprache und Vaterland, 1920
- Fiction
- Anna, 1874
- Lyrik
- Die große Revolution, 1872
- Nach berühmten Mustern, satirical, 1878, 1889
- Einsame Fahrten, 1879
- Vom armen Franischko, story, 1879
- Die Sonntage der Baronin, 1881
- Der neue Ahasver, 1882
- Dilettantenspiegel, satirical, 1883
- Gräfin Salamanca, 1884
- Xanthippe, 1884
- Berlin W. (trilogy of novels): Quartett, 1886; Die Fanfare, 1888; Der Villenhof, 1890
- Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna, novel, 1887
- Der Pegasus, 1889
- Zehn Geschichten, 1891
- Glück im Spiel, 1891
- Hypatia, 1892
- Lügenohr, 1892 (under the title: Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit, 1899)
- Kraft, novel 1894
- Die Geisterseher, novel 1894
- Die bunte Reihe, 1896
- Der steinerne Riese, novella, 1896
- Die böhmische Handschrift, novella 1897
- Der wilde Jockey, 1897
- Der letzte Tod des Gautamo Buddha, novel 1913
- Der goldene Fiedelbogen, 1917
- Essays and theoretical works
- Kleiner Krieg, 1879
- Credo, 1886
- Tote Symbole, 1892
- Zum Streit um die Bühne, 1893
- Totengespräche, 1906
- Gespräche im Himmel und andere Ketzereien, 1914
- Translations
- Henriette Marechal, by Edmond de Goncourt, 1895
- Editorial
- Wochenschrift für Kunst und Literatur, 1889-1890
- Magazin für die Literatur des In- und Auslandes, 1991
- Bibliothek der Philosophen, from 1911
- Collected works
- Ausgewählte Schriften, 6 books, 1919
- Miscellaneous
- Erinnerungen, autobiography 1918
- Selbstbiographie 1922, in: Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Bd. 3.
References[edit]
- ^ Iggers, Wilma. "Mauthner, Fritz". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ a b Helmut Henne, Christine Kaiser (2000). [ Fritz Mauthner - Sprache, Literatur, Kritik: Festakt Und Symposion Zu Seinem 150. Geburtstag] (in german). Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110941548.
- ^ Nájera, Elena. "Wittgenstein versus Mauthner: Two critiques of language, two mysticisms". From the ALWS archives: A selection of papers from the International Wittgenstein Symposia in Kirchberg am Wechsel. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ^ Janik, Allan and Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin. Wittgenstein's Vienna. I.R. Dee, 1996 (first published 1973), pp. 119, 121–133.
- ^ Wittgenstein L., Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "4.0031 All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense)."
Further reading[edit]
- Arens, Katherine. Empire in decline: Fritz Mauthner's critique of Wilhelminian Germany. New York: P. Lang, 2001.
- Ben-Zvi, Linda. Samuel Beckett, Fritz Mauthner and the Limits of Language. PMLA. Vol. 95(2): 183-200. 1980.
- Bredeck, Elizabeth. Metaphors of Knowledge: Language and Thought in Mauthner's Critique. Wayne State University Press, 1992.
- Dapía, Silvia. Die Rezeption der Sprachkritik Fritz Mauthners im Werk von Jorge Luis Borges. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 1993
- Knowlson, James & Pilling, John. Frescoes of the skull. London: John Calder, 1979.
- Kühn, Joachim. Gescheiterte Sprachkritik: Fritz Mauthners Leben und Werk. Walter de Gruyter, 1979.
- Ludwig, Otto & Heydrich, Moritz. Shakespeare-Studien. Halle: H. Gesenius, 1901.
- Skerl, Jennie. Fritz Mauthner's "Critique of Language" in Samuel Beckett's "Watt". Contemporary Literature. Vol. 15(4): 474-487. University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.
- Sluga, Hans. Wittgenstein and Pyrrhonism. In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.) Pyrrhonian Skepticism. Oxford University Press, 2006
- Vierhufe, Almut. Parody and Language Critique. Studies on Fritz Mauthner's Nach berühmten Mustern. Niemeyer, 1999.
- Weiler, Gershon. Mauthner's Critique of Language. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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