Fritz Heinemann (philosopher)
German philosopher
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Fritz Heinemann (8 February 1889 – 7 January 1970) was a German philosopher.
Born in Lüneburg, he taught at Frankfurt University from 1930 to 1933. From 1939 to 1956, he taught at Manchester College, Oxford.[1]
In Neue Wege der Philosophie (1929) Heinemann heralded the rise of the Existential movement by coining the term Existenzphilosphie, translated as Existentialism.
Works
- Plotin. Forschungen über die plotinische Frage, 1921
- Neue Wege der Philosophie, 1929
- Odysseus oder die Zukunft der Philosophie, 1939
- Existentialism and the Modern Predicament, 1953
- Existenzphilosophie: lebendig oder tot?, 1963