Hugo Fischer (philosopher)

Ernst Hugo Fischer (17 October 1897 – 11 May 1975) was a German philosopher and sociologist.

Biography

Hugo Fischer was born in Halle an der Saale. In 1917, Fischer left military service during World War I as permanently unfit due to the effects of close contact with deceased corpses during burials. He studied philosophy, history, psychology, and Indology at Leipzig University from 1918, receiving his doctorate there in 1921. In 1925, Fischer habilitated in philosophy at the same university. Between his doctorate and habilitation, he had made long trips to India (1921) and Spain (1923).

Fischer was a Privatdozent and briefly apl. Professor of Philosophy at the university of Leipzig from 1925 to 1938. Academically, he was assigned to the structural-genetic Leipzig school of sociology of culture around Hans Freyer and Arnold Gehlen. Politically, he belonged to the national revolutionary circle around Ernst Jünger. There were also connections with Ernst Niekisch.

He emigrated to Norway in 1938 and later on to Great Britain. In Oslo, he was director of the research department of the Institute for Social Research and Labour Studies under Ewald Bosse, in Great Britain he lived as a private scholar and again traveled to India several times. In 1949, he taught Western philosophy as a visiting professor at Banaras Hindu University. After his return to Germany in 1956, he received an adjunct professorship in philosophy of civilization at the University of Munich. After his emigration, Fischer was concerned with the sociology and phenomenology of the big city and film.

Hugo Fischer died in Ohlstadt.

Works

• Nietzsche Apostata oder die Philosophie des Ärgernisses (1931)
• Karl Marx und sein Verhältnis zu Staat und Wirtschaft (1932)
• Lenin. Der Machiavell des Ostens (1933; 2017)
• Die Aktualität Plotins. Über die Konvergenz von Wissenschaft und Metaphysik (1956)
• Die Geburt der Hochkultur in Ägypten und Mesopotamien. Der primäre Entwurf des menschlichen Dramas (1960; unabridged new edition, 1981)
• Theorie der Kultur. Das kulturelle Kraftfeld (1965)
• Die Geburt der westlichen Zivilisation aus dem Geist des romanischen Mönchtums (1969)
• Vernunft und Zivilisation, die Antipolitik (1971)
• Kunst und Realität (1975)

External links

• Prof. Dr. phil. Ernst Hugo Fischer
• Works by Hugo Fischer at German National Library