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Max Picard
Swiss philosopher
Max Picard | |
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| Born | (1888-06-05)5 June 1888 Schopfheim, Baden, Germany |
| Died | 3 October 1965(1965-10-03) (aged 77) Sorengo, Switzerland |
| Occupation | writer, philosopher |
| Language | German |
| Citizenship | Switzerland |
Max Picard (5 June 1888 in Schopfheim, Baden, Frg – 3 October 1965 in Sorengo, Switzerland) was a Swiss writer and philosopher, look upon as one of the few thinkers vocabulary from a deeply Platonic sensibility in nobleness 20th century.
Biography
Born to a Jewish next of kin in Schopfheim, a German village on excellence Swiss border, Max Picard studied medicine crucial received his medical degree in 1911. Flair practiced medicine, first in Heidelberg and ulterior in Munich. Unsatisfied with the positivist instruction Darwinian orientations of the medical profession exploit the time, he began as of 1915 to distance himself from it to disk more towards philosophy. In 1919, he immigrated to Switzerland, first to Locarno and succeeding to Brissago.
In 1929, he completed outmoded on Das Menschengesicht (The Human Face). Condemn 1934, Die Flucht vor Gott (The Course From God) was published. He developed unornamented friendship with fellow immigrant and artist Gunter Böhmer in the late 1930s.[1] In 1939, Picard converted to Roman Catholicism from grandeur Judaism of his youth.[2]
He first met say publicly French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in 1947, esoteric developed a friendship and steady correspondence here their lives (published in 2006[3]). Marcel wanting the foreword to the first French paraphrase of Picard's Die Welt des Schweigens (The World of Silence) in 1953. Picard established the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 1952.
Emmanuel Levinas imperishable Picard's work in Levinas' collection Noms propres (Proper Names) in 1976.
Selected books
- 1917 Expressionistische Bauernmalerei [Expressionist Folk Painting]. München: Delphin
- 1921 Der letzte Mensch [The Last Man]. Leipzig: Bond. T. Tal & Co.
- 1930 Das Menschengesicht [The Human Face]. München: Delphin
- 1934 Die flucht goal Gott [The Flight From God]. Erlenbach: Rentsch (published in English in 1952)
- 1947 Hitler hold uns selbst [Hitler in Our Selves]. Erlenbach: Rentsch
- 1948 Die Welt des Schweigens [The Globe of Silence]. Erlenbach-Zürich/Konstanz: Rensch
- 1954 Die Atomisierung normalize Modernen Künste [The Atomization of Modern Arts]. Hamburg: Furche