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Also known as Günther Stern, Günther Siegmund Stern

German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)

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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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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1902
Active to
1992
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Listeners
3
Total plays
15

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Quotes

  • Die Macht einer Weltanschauung bewährt sich ja nicht durch die Antworten, die sie zu geben weiß, sondern durch die Fragen, die sie abzudrosseln versteht.
  • Human beings are ashamed to have been born rather than made. They are ashamed of the fact that, unlike flawless and wholly calculated products, they owe their existence to the blind, incalculable and decidedly archaic process of procreation and birth.
  • Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (1956)

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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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Günther Anders” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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