Adolf Reinach: An Intellectual Biography

Abstract

As early as 1741 a Jekel Reinach is mentioned in the Memory Book of the Jewish community in Mainz, and by the end of the century the Reinachs were already one of the most notable and well-to-do Jewish families in the city. 2 The Record of Names of 1808 lists Salomon (formerly Seligmann) Reinach, Jacques (Mayer Herz) Reinach, Marx (Mayer Herz) Reinach, and Bernard Jacques (Beer Jacob) Reinach. 3 The descendants of Jacques Reinach spread from Mainz to Frankfurt and from there to Paris. His grandson Adolf von Reinach (1814-1879), Belgian consul in Frankfurt, was created an Italian Baron in 1866, and founded the French Banking family of de Reinach-not to be confused with the Alsatian barons de Reinach-which played a major role in republican circles around the French politician Gambetta. In 1850 Adolf's twin brother Hermann Joseph Reinach, then already established in Paris, married Julie Büding from Kassel. Among the three sons of this marriage Salomon (1858-1932), a prominent archaeologist and historian of religion, became a professor at the École du Louvre. He also translated Schopenhauer and established a critical edition of Augustine's De Civitate Dei. His brother Théodore (1860-1923), professor of numismatics at the Collège de 1 The few existing published biographies of Reinach are, if not unreliable (Oesterreicher 1952), then at best very succinct (Avé-Lallemant 1975, 172-74, Crosby 1983, XI-X). In compiling the present essay we have used in particular Reinach's letters to Husserl (Husserl Archives) and to Conrad and Daubert (Bavarian State Library, Munich). We draw further on Avé-Lallemant's Catalogue of the Münchener Phänomenologennachlässe, on Schuhmann's Husserl-Chronik (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1977), and on the pertinent Vorlesungsverzeichnisse of the University of Göttingen. We have also profited from the "Historical Introduction" to Brettler 1974, 1-15. References not here given in full are to be found in the Reinach bibliography on pp. 299-332 below. We should like to thank the Bavarian State Library, the Husserl Archives, Louvain, and Oberarchivrat Schütz of the Stadtarchiv Mainz for providing copies of relevant materials. Special thanks are due to Fräulein Hertha Schmujlow and to Dr. Eberhard Avé-Lallemant, executors of Reinach's literary estate, for their generous assistance and for their permission to quote extensively from Reinach's letters. Thanks are due also to the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, under whose kind auspices Smith's contributions to this essay were written.

Las “vivencias religiosas” en el pensamiento de Adolf Reinach. Esbozo de un análisis fenomenológico The “Religious Experiences” in Adolf Reinach’s Thought. Outline of a phenomenological analysis

“…61 Aborda en él uno de los problemas centrales del código penal de su época; a saber, si la premeditación puede ser considerada como un factor determinante de la gravedad y de la cualidad de un determinado comportamiento criminal. En palabras más simples, si la premeditación es un elemento suficiente para distinguir un asesinato de un homicidio; mientras que este último se castiga con seis meses de prisión, el primero se sanciona con la muerte del perpetrador.…”

The ‘German Fathers’ of the Theological Turn in Phenomenology: Scheler, Reinach, Heidegger

“…Initially a student of Theodore Lipps, Adolf Reinach discovered Husserl through his Logical Investigations while working under the supervision of Daubert and Pfänder. Keenly attached to the principle of phenomenological realism, Reinach never accepted Husserl's turn towards transcendental idealism in his 1913 Ideen I . Known primarily for his work The Apriorical Foundations of Civil Rights , an attempt at a realist phenomenology of rights with regard to the contemporary system of German law, Reinach also wrote several shorter essays and introductions to philosophical problems…”

Questions: An Essay in Daubertian Phenomenology

“…We must admit that the moments implied in this unity -the physical word-appearance with its animating moment of meaning, the moment of recognition and the intuition of what is named -do not separate themselves off clearly in the intimacy of this fusion, but our discussion compels us to assume them all to be there." (A500/691) 26 See the Daubert texts from the years 1904 and 1906 translated in Smith 1985. the judgment itself (1904, 151f). Here, too, Daubert is willing to concede that questions tend toward completion, "toward the resolution of a certain uncertainty" (73v).…”

“…13 Reinach was a member of the Munich group under Daubert's particular influence. His theory is discussed in detail in Smith 1985 and1985a and now also in Burkhardt 1986. 14 Daubert was in the end the only one to drop out.…”

“…On Daubert and Munich phenomenology in general see Spiegelberg 1982, 169f. On Daubert's life see Schuhmann 1985, andSchuhmann andSmith 1985. 12 For a preliminary survey of Daubert's criticisms of the Investigations see Smid 1985.…”