Elmar Holenstein: Portrait of a Swiss Philosopher

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Keywords

Switzerland, Swiss history, European history

Abstract

From 1964 to 1972 El mar Holenstein, born 7 January 193 7 in Gossau, Canton St. Gallen, studied philosophy, psychology, and linguistics at the universities of Louvain/Leuven, Heidelberg, and Zurich. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the phenomenology of the pre- and non-conceptual human experience as explored by Edward Husserl (1859-1938), the German founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Holenstein gained professorial status (habilitation) by a book on the phenomenological structuralism of Roman Jakobson.

Recommended Citation

(2015) "Elmar Holenstein: Portrait of a Swiss Philosopher," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 51: No. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol51/iss3/4