Johannes Volkelt

Johannes Immanuel Volkelt (born 21 July 1848 in Lipnik near Biala (Galicia); died 8 May 1930 in Leipzig) was a German philosopher.

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.

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.

Works

Volkelt has written on aesthetics as well as on philosophy proper. His more important works are:

• Pantheismus und Individualismus im System Spinozas (1872)
• Die Traumphantasie (1875)
• Kants Erkenntnistheorie, a searching piece of criticism (1879)
• Aesthetische Zeitfragen (1895)
• Arthur Schopenhauer, seine Persönlichkeit, seine Lehre, sein Glaube (1900)
• Die Kunst des Individualisierens in den Dichtungen Jean Pauls (1902)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Volkelt, Johannes Immanuel". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.