About
Günther Anders, born Günther Siegmund Stern in 1902 in Breslau, was an Austrian philosopher and writer. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he married Hannah Arendt in 1929. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933, he lived in Paris and the United States, returning to Europe in 1950. His major work, 'The Obsolescence of Human Beings' (1956, 1980), develops a 'philosophy of discrepancy' between human technological capability and moral imagination. Co-founder of the European antinuclear movement, he served as a juror at the Russell Tribunal (1967). He died in Vienna in 1992.
* 1902-07-12 — † 1992-12-17
Major works
- Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, Bd. 1 (1956)philosophical essay
- Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, Bd. 2 (1980)philosophical essay
- Kafka. Pro und Contra (1951)critical study
- Bert Brecht. Gespräche und Erinnerungen (1962)critical study
Key milestones
- 1933Fled Nazi Germany, first to Paris, then to the United States in 1936.
- 1954Co-founded the European antinuclear movement with Robert Jungk.
- 1983Awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt.
Themes
Promethean gapapocalyptic blindnesscritique of technologymoral responsibilityantinuclear
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