Zwischen 1903 und 1915, zur Zeit der ersten Hochblüte der entstehenden Psychoanalyse, entwickelte sich – eine Sensation für die Freud-Biographik – eine enge Brieffreundschaft zwischen Freud und Christian von Ehrenfels. Christian von Ehrenfels ist heute noch als Vordenker und Begründer der Gestalttheorie ...
Ehrenfels’ first contribution to philosophy and psychology, published in 1886 and here reprinted, takes as its starting point the ideas of Paul Du Bois-Reymond. It deals with questions that Ehrenfels was to raise again thirty years later in the far-reaching work Cosmogony, which forms centre-piece of ...
The volume opens with Ehrenfels’ classic paper of 1890 ,On ‘Gestalt-qualities’” (“Über ‘Gestaltqualitäten’”). It is followed by a short summary of the fundamental features of the concept of a Gestalt, written by Ehrenfels only a few months before his death, and contains also a selection of other contributions ...
During the 40 year period in which Christian von Ehrenfels taught in the Universities of Vienna and Prague, it was problems in aesthetics which stood always in the foreground of his theoretical interests. He himself, however, published only a small number of essays on the theory of art, essays opposing ...
This volume is the first ever collection of the writings on value theory of the great Austrian philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels. It consists principally of the monograph Werttheorie und Ethik (Value Theory and Ethics) and of the two-volume System der Werttheorie (System of Value Theory, Vol. 1: The ...