Klaus Hartmann (; September 5, 1925,

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– June 30, 1991,

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) was a German philosopher and university lecturer.

Life

After being a prisoner of war, Hartmann studied philosophy, English and German at the

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from 1946. He received his doctorate there in 1953 with a thesis on ''Husserls Einfühlungstheorie auf monadologischer Grundlage'', and his habilitation in 1962 with a thesis on ''Grundzüge der Ontologie Sartres in ihrem Verhältnis zu Hegels Logik''. In 1967 he became an associate professor at the University of Bonn; in 1972 he accepted an appointment as a full professor in

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Work

During the 1960s, Hartmann formulated a ''non-metaphysical'' interpretation of

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. This interpretation, along with the contributions of

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and other scholars, influenced the renewed academic interest in Hegel during the latter part of the twentieth century. According to

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, Hartmann's thought represents a revised and purified form of neo‑Hegelianism that attempts to respond to and complete the development of neo‑Kantianism in modern German thought just as Hegel himself had attempted to complete the development of Kantian idealism in his own day.

Reception

According to Reinhold Aschenberg Hartmann's book ''Die Marxsche Theorie. Eine philosophische Untersuchung zu den Hauptschriften'' (1970) covers “Marx's theory comprehensively in all relevant phases of development and theoretical pieces”. “Because the analysis, reconstruction and criticism it offers is unsurpassed in its philosophical level”, the book stands out from the philosophical literature on

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.Philosophisches Jahrbuch 84 (1977) 165. Michael Moxter is one of his students.

Selected works in English

* (1966)
On Taking the Transcendental Turn
''

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'' 20, no. 2 (1966): 223–49. * (1972), Hegel: A Non-Metaphysical View, in A. MacIntyre (ed.) ''Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays'', New York: Anchor Books, 101–24.

Selected works in German

* ''Sartres Sozialphilosophie.'' 1966. * ''Marxens Kapital in transzendentalphilosophischer Sicht.'' 1968. * ''Die Marxsche Theorie.'' 1970. * ''Politische Philosophie.'' 1981. * ''Die Philosophie J.-P. Sartres. 2 Unters. zu L'être et le néant u. zur Critique de la raison dialectique.'' 1983. * ''Studies in Foundational Philosophy.'' 1988. * ''Hegels Logik.'' Hrsg. von Olaf Müller. 1999.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartmann, Klaus 1991 deaths 1925 births 20th-century German philosophers Hegelian philosophers Scholars of modern philosophy Continental philosophers Hegel scholars Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Tübingen