Alexander Pfänder

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Alexander Pfänder (7 February 1870, in

Munich phenomenological school
.

Biography

Pfänder was born in

Heidegger with Being and Time
(1927) and has consequently been overshadowed by subsequent developments out of Heideggerian and Husserlian orientations. Nevertheless, his detailed analyses of various phenomena, such as willing and attitudes (Gesinnungen), have been undeservedly ignored. Moreover, his development of the concept of an "understanding psychology" also merits attention, which has not received its due to its treatment in a work with an unfashionable title (The Soul of Man (1933)).

Works

  • Phänomenologie des Wollens: Eine psychologische Analyse (1900)
  • Logik (1921) English translation: Logic Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag, 2009.
  • Die Seele des Menschen (1933).

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