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Günther Anders
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German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)
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Günther Anders was a philosopher, translator, screenwriter and film critic, born on 12 July 1902 in Wrocław. He held citizenship of Germany, Austria and the United States, and died on 17 December 1992 in Vienna. He studied at the University of Freiburg under Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl and Ernst Cassirer, with Husserl also his doctoral advisor. His wife was Hannah Arendt.
His field of work was philosophy of technology and philosophy generally, and he spoke French, English and German. He worked at various times for The New School, the United States Office of War Information, the Berliner Börsen-Courier and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishing under the pseudonyms Günther Christian and Reinhold Hoffmann. He belonged to the German Academy for Language and Literature and the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and received the Theodor W. Adorno Award, the Andreas Gryphius Prize and the Sigmund Freud Prize.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1902
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 63
Top works
- Olocausto
- Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen
- Essays on socialist humanism, in honour of the centenary of Bertrand Russell 1872-1970
- Et si je suis désespéré, que voulez-vous que j'y fasse ? (French Edition)
- Die ausserberufliche Unverletzlichkeit der Vertreter des deutschen Gesamtvolkes
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1902
- Active to
- 1992
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 15
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Key facts
- Born
- Günther Siegmund Stern , ( 1902-07-12 ) 12 July 1902, Breslau , German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland)
- Died
- 17 December 1992 (1992-12-17) (aged 90), Vienna , Austria
- Spouses
- Hannah Arendt ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1929 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1937 ) Elisabeth Freundlich ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1945 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1955 ) Charlotte Lois Zelka ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1957 )
- Parents
- William Stern (father) Clara Joseephy (mother)
- Alma mater
- University of Freiburg
- Doctoral advisor
- Edmund Husserl
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy , phenomenology
- Main interests
- Philosophy of technology
- Notable ideas
- Philosophy of discrepancy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Günther
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wrocław
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Father
- William Stern
- Mother
- Clara Stern
- Occupation
- poet
- Educated at
- University of Freiburg
- Employer
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Edmund Husserl
- Student of
- Ernst Cassirer
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Günther Stern and Hannah Arendt (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1902-07-12
- date of death
- 1992-12-17
- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- archives at
- State University of New York at Albany
- Commons category
- Günther Anders
- name in native language
- Günther Anders
- writing language
- German
- different from
- Günther Anders
- pseudonym
- Reinhold Hoffmann
- P8168
- Piano Concerto No. 3
- has written for
- Les Temps modernes
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Encyclopedic overview
Günther Anders ( German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈandɐs]; born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-born philosopher, journalist and critical theorist.
Trained as a philosopher in the phenomenological tradition, he obtained his doctorate under Edmund Husserl in 1923 and worked then as a journalist at the Berliner Börsen-Courier. At that time, he changed his name from Stern to Anders. He unsuccessfully tried to get a university tenure in the early 1930s and ultimately fled Nazism to the United States. Back in Europe in the 1950s, he published his major book, The Obsolescence of Man, in 1956.
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