Elmar Holenstein

Swiss philosopher, specialised in philosophical psychology, philosophy of language and cultural philosophy. After a PhD on Husserl written in Leuven, he worked with Roman Jakobson at Harvard and Joseph Greenberg at Stanford. He was professor of philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum (1977-1990) and the ETH Zürich (1990-2002). He is known in particular for his interpretation of Jakobson's linguistics as a "phenomenological structuralism" and for his visual "Atlas of Philosophy".

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On the relativity of linguistic relativism

2020

in: Phenomenological philosophy of language, Genève-Lausanne : sdvig press

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A new patriotic song for Switzerland

2015

Swiss American Historical Society Review 51/3

Photos of skyborne earthscapes: Chan-Fai's kairos

2013

in: Earthscape, Hong Kong : Edwin Cheng Foundation

Overcoming dichotomies

2012

Journal of Philosophical Research 37

Complex cultural traditions

2010

in: Identity and alterity, Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann

Semiotics as a cognitive science

2008

Cognitive Semiotics 3

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Natural ethics: Legitimate naturalism in ethics

2007

in: Selected essays from Asia, Bucharest : Zeta Books

Tokio or Tokyo, Dschudo or Judo: On writing foreign names [in German]

2007

in: Language regimes in transformation, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter

The zero-point of orientation: The place of the I in the perceived space

2004

in: The body: classic and contemporary readings, Oxford : Blackwell

Russia: A country transcending Europe

1998

Acta Linguistica Hafnensia 29

Prospects of naturalization in psychology and epistemology

1994

in: Gestalt psychology, Firenze : Olschki

Classical and modern work on universals: The philosophical background and Marty's contribution

1990

in: Mind, meaning and metaphysics, Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer

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Jakobson's philosophical background

1987

in: Language, poetry and poetics - the generation of the 1890s, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter

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Double articulation in writing

1983

in: Writing in focus, Berlin-New York : Mouton

Five jakobsonian principles of poetics

1983

The American Journal of Semiotics 2

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The meaning of "Bedeutung" in Frege: A philological approach

1983

in: History of semiotics, Amsterdam : Benjamins

Monofunctionalism in the architecture between the wars

1981

Oppositions: A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture 24

On the poetry and the plurifunctionality of language

1981

in: Structure and Gestalt, Amsterdam : Benjamins

Universals of knowledge: Constraints on understanding?

1981

in: Meaning and understanding, Berlin : de Gruyter

Prague structuralism: A branch of the phenomenological movement

1979

in: Linguistic and literary studies in Eastern Europe I, Amsterdam : Benjamins

Semiotic philosophy?

1978

in: The sign, Ann Arbor : Michigan Slavic Publications

Herbert Spiegelberg, doing phenomenology

1977

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 8

Jakobson's contribution to phenomenology

1977

in: Roman Jakobson, Lisse : Peter de Ridder

Roman Jakobson's approach to language: phenomenological structuralism

1976

Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press

The structure of understanding: Structuralism versus hermeneutics

1976

PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 1