Otto Buek

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Otto Buek (19 November 1873 – 1966) was a German

St. Petersburg
.

He studied philosophy,

Gogol and two volumes of Ernst Cassirer's edition of Kant's collected writings. During the 1920s, he worked as a correspondent for the Argentine newspaper La Nación
.

From a philosophical standpoint, Buek was an advocate of

physiologist and pacifist Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874–1964), and only one of three intellectuals in Germany who signed Nicolai's 1914 anti-war counter-manifesto, Manifesto to the Europeans (Aufruf an die Europäer). The other two being physicist Albert Einstein and astronomer Wilhelm Julius Foerster.[1]

Selected publications

  • Die Atomistik und Faradays Begriff der Materie ("Atomism and Faraday's concept of matter") in: Archiv für die Geschichte der Philosophie 18: 1904, 65-139; als Separatdruck auch: Reimer, Berlin 1905.
  • Kritik des Marxismus ("Critique of Marxism") in: Die Aktion 1911, Spalte 1029–1033.
  • Faradays System der Natur und seine begrifflichen Grundlagen ("Faraday's system of nature and its conceptual foundations") in: Philosophische Abhandlungen. Hermann Cohen zum 70sten Geburtstag dargebracht (4. Juli 1912); Cassirer, Berlin 1912.

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Bibliography

  • Meyer-Rewerts, U.; Stöckmann, H. (2010). "Das ′Manifest der 93′: Ausdruck oder Negation der Zivilgesellschaft?". In Johanna Klatt; Robert Lorenz (eds.). Manifeste: Geschichte und Gegenwart des politischen Appells (in German). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. .