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Brentano in exile

The Brentano Institute at Oxford

Thomas Binder

pp. 415-429

Abstract

It is barely known that, from 1941 until 1949, Oxford University hosted a Franz Brentano Institute. It was founded by Oskar Kraus (the former head of the Brentano Society in Prague) and his pupil Georg Katkov with the strong support of Oxford’s Sir David Ross and Gilbert Ryle. This paper provides an overview of the prehistory of the institute and of the few years of its existence. Moreover, the paper will present Kraus’ Gifford Lectures, New Meditations on Mind, God and His Creation, which he delivered in 1941 at the University of Edinburgh, and Katkov’s unfinished work on intentionality which was intended as an introduction to Franz Brentano’s philosophical thinking for the English-speaking world. Besides Alfred Kastil’s monograph Die Philosophie Franz Brentanos, Kraus’ lectures and Katkov’s fragment can be considered as the last major philosophical works of the Brentano school in the narrow sense.

Publication details

Published in:

Tănăsescu Ion, Bejinariu Alexandru, Krantz Gabriel Susan, Stoenescu Constantin (2022) Brentano and the positive philosophy of Comte and Mill: with translations of original writings on philosophy as science by Franz Brentano. Berlin, de Gruyter.

Pages: 415-429

DOI: 10.1515/9783110734645-018

Full citation:

Binder Thomas (2022) „Brentano in exile: The Brentano Institute at Oxford“, In: I. Tănăsescu, A. Bejinariu, S. Krantz Gabriel & C. Stoenescu (eds.), Brentano and the positive philosophy of Comte and Mill, Berlin, de Gruyter, 415–429.