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THE LIFE AND WORK OF GÜNTHER ANDERS KARTONIERT ...

Günther Anders (1902  Breslau - 1992  Vienna) studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger in
Freiburg in the 1920s. Married to Hannah Arendt he worked in Berlin as a journalist and also
wrote antifascist literature. He emigrated in 1933  first to Paris  then to the United States 
where he worked and lectured at the New School for Social Research. Auschwitz  Hiroshima  and
Nagasaki were the major turning points in Anders' philosophical thinking. He returned to Europe
in 1950 and settled in Vienna. He was one of the first to critically examine the Austrian
victim myth. Increasingly  his primary interest turned to the issue of the growing predominance
of technology in human life. In his main philosophical work Die Antiquiertheit 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. He emerged as a central
figure in the European antinuclear movement. He was also a critic of the American ag

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