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".
in English
XOn the relativity of linguistic relativism
2020
in: Phenomenological philosophy of language, Genève-Lausanne : sdvig press
A new patriotic song for Switzerland
2015
Swiss American Historical Society Review 51/3
2014
Metodo 2/2
Photos of skyborne earthscapes
2013
in: Earthscape, Hong Kong : Edwin Cheng Foundation
2012
Journal of Philosophical Research 37
2010
in: Identity and alterity, Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann
Semiotics as a cognitive science
2008
Cognitive Semiotics 3
2008
Manuscript
2007
in: Selected essays from Asia, Bucharest : Zeta Books
Tokio or Tokyo, Dschudo or Judo
2007
in: Language regimes in transformation, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter
2006
Manuscript
2006
Manuscript
Life like a dream – overdetermined
2004
Manuscript
The cultural history of humanity
2004
Manuscript
2004
in: The body: classic and contemporary readings, Oxford : Blackwell
Russia: A country transcending Europe
1998
Acta Linguistica Hafnensia 29
1995
The Monist 78
Prospects of naturalization in psychology and epistemology
1994
in: Gestalt psychology, Firenze : Olschki
Classical and modern work on universals
1990
in: Mind, meaning and metaphysics, Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer
Jakobson's philosophical background
1987
in: Language, poetry and poetics - the generation of the 1890s, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter
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
The meaning of "Bedeutung" in Frege
1983
in: History of semiotics, Amsterdam : Benjamins
On the cognitive underpinnings of language
1982
Semiotica 41
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
1981
in: Meaning and understanding, Berlin : de Gruyter
1979
in: Linguistic and literary studies in Eastern Europe I, Amsterdam : Benjamins
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
The structure of understanding
1976
PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 1
1975
The Human Context 7
A new essay concerning the basic relations of language
1974
Semiotica 12