Erich Rothacker

Erich Rothacker
Born	12 March 1881(1881-03-12) Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died	11 August 1965(1965-08-11) Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Occupation	Philosopher

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

Literary 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)

External links

Erich Rothacker in the German National Library catalogue (German)
Leonore Bazinek (1994). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Erich Rothacker. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 8. Herzberg. cols. 752–756. ISBN 3-88309-053-0. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/r/rothacker_e.shtml.

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Name	Rothacker, Erich
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Date of birth	March 12, 1888
Place of birth	Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date of death	August 11, 1965
Place of death	Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany