Abstract
AbstractLike many of his contemporary students, Hans Reichenbach was a member of the Freistudentenschaft. This movement strongly defended the idea of moral self-determination and intellectual autonomy of the individual, and aimed at reforming the German university system that the Free Students regarded as no longer adequate to reflect their needs. As a Free Student, Reichenbach stood against any form of dogmatism, be it scholastic, religious, philosophical, political, or institutional. It is against this background that he developed the ideals that would ultimately provide the basis for his philosophical thought, and to which he would remain faithful until the end of his life.The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of Reichenbach’s experience as a Free Student and its impact on his later work. I will consider archival materials that significantly epitomise his early involvement within the German Youth Movement, specifically in relation to: his political partaking in the university reform, which extends until 1919; a psychological research project he carried out around 1912–1913; and his position on the war, which emerges in his 1915 correspondence with the education reformer Gustav Wyneken.
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Springer International Publishing
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