German philosopher, psychologist and social critic
Richard Müller-Freienfels (1882–1949) was a German philosopher, psychologist and social critic. He was "one of the most important mediators of empirical psychology" to poetics.[1]
Müller-Freienfels was born in Bad Ems on 7 August 1882.[2] He was a lecturer and writer at the Berlin Trade School (Handelsschule Berlin).[1] Müller-Freienfels joind the Nazi Party in 1933.[3] He died on 12 December 1949 in Weilburg.[2]
Works
Psychologie der Kunst: eine Darstellung der Grundzüge, 1912
Poetik [Poetics], 1914
Persönlichkeit und weltanschauung: die psychologischen grundtypen in religion, kunst und philosophie, 1919
Philosophie der individualität, 1921
Psychologie des deutschen Menschen und seiner Kultur: ein volkscharakterologischer Versuch, 1922. Translated by Rolf Hoffmann as The German, his psychology and culture: an inquiry into folk character, 1936.
Die Seele des Alltags: eine Psychologie für Jedermann, 1925.
Geheimnisse der Seele, 1927. Translated by Bernard Miall as Mysteries of the Soul, 1929
Die Hauptrichtungen der gegenwärtigen Psychologie, 1929. Translated by W. Béran Wolf as The evolution of modern psychology, 1935.
