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Name
  
Hermann Keyserling

Role
  
Philosopher


Region
  
Western philosophy

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Born
  
July 20, 1880 (
1880-07-20
)

Died
  
April 26, 1946, Innsbruck, Austria

Books
  
South American meditations on hell and heaven in the soul of man, Europe

Philosophical era
  
20th-century philosophy

Count Hermann Alexander von Keyserling (July 20, 1880 – April 26, 1946) was a Baltic German philosopher from the Keyserlingk family. His grandfather Alexander Keyserling was a notable geologist of Imperial Russia.

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Life

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He was born to a wealthy aristocratic family in the Kõnnu Manor, Pärnu County in Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, now in Estonia. After his education at the universities of Dorpat (Tartu), Heidelberg, and Vienna, he took a trip around the world. He married Maria Goedela von Bismarck-Schönhausen, granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck. His son Arnold Keyserling followed his fathers footsteps and became a renowned philosopher.

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Hermann Keyserling interested himself in natural science and in philosophy, and before World War I he was known both as a student of geology and as a popular essayist. The Russian Revolution deprived him of his estate in Livonia, and with the remains of his fortune he founded the Gesellschaft für Freie Philosophie (Society for Free Philosophy) at Darmstadt. The mission of this school was to bring about the intellectual reorientation of Germany.

He was the first to use the term Führerprinzip. One of Keyserling's central claims was that certain "gifted individuals" were "born to rule" on the basis of Social Darwinism.

Although not a doctrinaire pacifist, Keyserling believed that the old German policy of militarism was dead for all time and that Germany's only hope lay in the adoption of international, democratic principles. His best-known work is the Reisetagebuch eines Philosophen ("Travel-journal of a Philosopher"). The book also describes his travels in Asia, America and Southern Europe.

He died at Innsbruck, Austria.

Works

  • Reisetagebuch eines Philosophen
  • Das Buch vom Ursprung
  • Schöpferische Erkenntnis
  • Südamerikanische Meditationen
  • Einführung in die Schule der Weisheit
  • Philosophie als Kunst
  • Das Buch vom persönlichen Leben
  • Betrachtungen der Stille und Besinnlichkeit
  • Reise durch die Zeit (Memoiren)
  • Das Spektrum Europas
  • Das Gefuge Der Welt: Versuch Einer Kritischen Philosophie
  • Literature

  • Dyserinck, Hugo: Graf Hermann Keyserling und Frankreich, Ein Kapitel deutsch-französischer Geistesbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert; Bouvier, Bonn 1970; ISBN 3-416-00667-4
  • Gahlings, Ute: Hermann Graf Keyserling, ein Lebensbild; Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 1996; ISBN 3-87390-116-1
  • Keyserling-Archiv Innsbruck-Mühlau (Hrsg.): Graf Hermann Keyserling, ein Gedächtnisbuch; Rohrer, Innsbruck 1948
  • Kaminsky, Amy: ' Victoria Ocampo and the Keyserling Effect' in Argentina, stories for a nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 p. 70-98.
  • References

    Hermann von Keyserling Wikipedia


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