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Reinach, Adolf

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Introduction

Adolf Reinach (1883–1917), philosopher and jurist and brilliant and meticulous thinker, was one of the great exponents of realistic phenomenology.

Adolf Reinach’s life, like that of so many intellectuals of his generation, was cut short by his eager enlistment in the German army during World War I. Reinach died on the front, in November 1917, 1 month before his 34th birthday. Shortly after his death, Husserl said of him that he “was one of the first to fully understand the nature of the new phenomenological method and was able to behold its philosophical reach” (Husserl 1919, 147).

In fact, this young university professor became the soul of a whole generation of phenomenologists who considered him their true teacher: Dietrich von Hildebrand, Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Jean Hering, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Wilhelm Schapp, etc.

The Munich Period

To understand the reasons behind his intellectual sway, we must go back a few years. Specifically, to 1901, when Reinach, aged just...

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Albert Márquez, M.M. (2021). Reinach, Adolf. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_874-1

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