Former Students
Salmony was a dedicated and caring teacher. This is attested by Karl Jaspers himself who mentions it in his correspondence with Hannah Arendt in reference to Salmony-student Hans Saner (1934-2017).[1]
Salmony was a dedicated and caring teacher. This is attested by Karl Jaspers himself who mentions it in his correspondence with Hannah Arendt in reference to Salmony-student Hans Saner (1934-2017).[1]
Salmony also had a rare gift to introduce philosophy to very young minds, including highschool students as Shimon Gesundheit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) points out in his foreword to the English translation of Leo Adler’s The Biblical View of Man.[2] Leo Adler (1915-1978) was Basel’s Rabbi and wrote his dissertation on Ludwig Wittgenstein under Salmony’s guidance in 1970.
Other former students are artist Karin Schaub* (b. 1928) as well as philosophers Anton Hügli* (b. 1939), Gui Hyun Shin, Olga Rubitschon (b. 1947), and Andreas Cesana* (1951-2019).
Most dissertations written under Salmony's guidance were published in "Basler Beiträge zur Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte," a series edited by H. A. Salmony (see Published Work).
Here are some dissertations published in other places:
Hans Saner. Kants Weg vom Krieg zum Frieden. Bd. 1: Widerstreit und Einheit - Wege zu Kants politischem Denken. München: Verlag R. Piper, 1967.
Leo Adler. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Eine existentielle Deutung. Basel/München: S. Karger, 1976.
Shin, Gui Hyun. Struktur des inneren Zeitbewusstseins – Über den Begriff der Protention in den veröffentlichten Schriften Edmund Husserls. (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Series 20: Philosophie, Vol. 26). Frankfurt a. M., Bern: Peter Lang,1978.
Fritz Ganser. Strukturen des Logos. Zur Phänomenologie des Bewusstseins bei Hermann Schmalenbach. (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Series 20: Philosophie, Vol. 469). Frankfurt a. M., Bern: Peter Lang, 1995.
Walo E. Hartmann. Über das Lachen. Zur anthropologischen Bedeutung des Lachenkönnens und des Lachens. Schaffhausen: Meier, 1998.
Last updated: February 2, 2018, November 8, 2019, June 7, 2021.