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accessible to the non-specialist. Methodologically, he favored what has been termed âan ontological approachâ; pedagogically, he incorporated
Socratic dialogue and what, for lack of a better word, may be called âlecture.â In all this, he brought to his classes, and was capable of eliciting from his students, an exceptional degree of personal engagement.
66:, where he received his primary school education. This was followed by a return to Budapest in 1931 and enrollment in the Deutsche Oberschule (âGerman High Schoolâ). As was typical of those of his background, he was raised bilingual in Hungarian and German, though German remained the primary language of his intellectual work throughout his life.
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Oberlin where he earned his B.A. in German in 1938. From there, he went to Harvard to begin his doctoral studies. Drafted into the U.S. army in 1942, he was dispatched to serve as an intelligence officer with the
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JĂĄszi enjoyed a campus-wide reputation as an outstanding teacher. Recognized as âone of the most respected critics of German literature in the United Statesâ as well as âone of the most beloved professors of the
University,â he developed an original style of teaching that was rigorous yet also
156:(âKnowledge and Reality: Foundationally Critical Preliminary Investigationsâ), it is a radical condensation of the first half of a manuscript of over five-thousand pages, his magnum opus. Left unfinished and unpublished at his death, it is presently in private hands.
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Alongside his career as
Professor of German Literature, JĂĄszi spent much of his adult life working on a massive philosophical project dealing with fundamental questions of being and knowing, especiallyâbut not onlyâin the area of aesthetics. These investigations,
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JĂĄszi completed his Ph.D. in German at
Harvard in 1947. He was hired the following year by the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught classes in German literature until his retirement in 1984. He died at his home in Oakland, California, in 1998.
374:"Some say a JĂĄszi lecture is like a poem, others a prayer. His manner while lecturing often resembles a person protected from external reality by a trance-like shell. The intensity of his concentration is felt by everyone in the room." Larson, 18-19.
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in nature and method, treat such concepts as being, consciousness, time and space, change and motion, identity and difference, subject and object, part and whole.
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Portions of these investigations were published in essay form throughout the 1950s and 60s, followed by a book-length monograph in 1974. Titled
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218:âIn the Realm of Beauty and Anguish: Some Remarks on the Poetry of Aestheticism.â
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Austriaca: BeitrĂ€ge zur österreichischen Literatur. Festschrift fĂŒr Heinz Politzer
211:âSymbolism and the Linguistic Paradox: Reflections on Goetheâs World View.â In
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279:. Ed. by Winfried Kudszus and Hinrich Seeba. TĂŒbingen: Niemeyer, 1975, 469-480.
272:. Ed. by JĂŒrgen Brummack, et al. TĂŒbingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1981, 824-836.
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Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. Festschrift fĂŒr Richard Brinkmann
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Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fĂŒr Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeshichte
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Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fĂŒr Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeshichte
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German Literature, Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium
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University of California Publications in Modern Philology
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Dichtung und Deutung. GedĂ€chtnisschrift fĂŒr Hans M. Wolff
242:âHofmannstahlâs âBallade des Ă€usseren Lebensââ, 136-137.
282:âDas Wort in der Zeit und das Ding in Zeit und Raum.â
458:. Budapest: Central European University Press. 2006.
289:âĂsthetische Form in Zeit und Raum: Ein Versuch.â
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456:A Twentieth-Century Prophet: Oscar JĂĄszi 1875â1957
189:âThe Inexhaustible Object: Trying to Understand
206:Soundings, Collections of the University Library
296:âRilkes Duineser Elegien und die Einsamkeit.â
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239:âHofmannstahlâs âDie Beidenââ, 134-135.
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310:Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1965
257:âEinige Anmerkungen ĂŒber die Zeit und
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275:ââMĂ€rchen sagt: â es war einmalâ.â
173:TĂŒbingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1974.
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160:Publications by Andrew JĂĄszi
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200:âReflections on Goetheâs
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140:Philosophical work
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