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The Life and Work of Gunther Anders|Gunter Bischof

The Life and Work of Gunther Anders : Emigre, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters

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This volume recovers and reintroduces the work of Gunther Anders (1902-1992), "the most neglected German philosopher of the twentieth century," according to Jean-Pierre Dupuy. In his main philosophical work, Die Antiquiert-heit des Menschen (1956), Anders developed what he called a "philosophy of discrepancy," an analysis of the gap between what we are able to produce and what we are able to imagine. Over a long career stretching almost seventy years, Anders published numerous philosophical essays, short stories, and poetry. His role as an arch-critic of ever more advancing technological mass society, in general, and the nuclear age, in particular, defined him as a public intellectual par excellence of the Cold War era.

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  • ISBN-13: 9783706553520
  • ISBN-10: 370655352X
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: September 2015
  • Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
  • Page Count: 204

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