Description
| Product ID: | 9783706553520 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | AT |
| Series: | Studien Verlag |
| Title: | The Life and Work of Gunther Anders |
| Subtitle: | Emigre, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters |
| Authors: | Author: Bernhard Fetz, Jason Dawsey, Gunter Bischof |
| Page Count: | 204 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, General and world history, History, Philosophy, Impact of science and technology on society, General & world history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, 20th century |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Studienverlag GesmbH |
| Publisher Name: | Studienverlag GesmbH |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-09-01 |
