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Günther Anders

1902 - 1992

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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 Stern to Anders. He unsuccessfully tried to get a university tenure in the early 1930s and ultimately fled Nazism to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Günther Anders is the 354th most popular philosopher (down from 348th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Poland (down from 171st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Günther Anders was a German philosopher and writer who is most famous for his book "The Obsolescence of Human Beings."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Günther Anders ranks 354 out of 1,267. Before him are Antonio Negri, Crates of Thebes, Pompeia Plotina, Aristoxenus, Robert Nozick, and Hermann Cohen. After him are René Girard, Otto Neurath, Peter Singer, Abul A'la Maududi, Nasir Khusraw, and John Philoponus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Günther Anders ranks 41. Before him are Theodore Schultz, Reinhard Gehlen, Alexandre Kojève, Émile Benveniste, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Menachem Mendel Schneerson. After him are Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Harold Lasswell, Alexander Luria, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Max Ophüls, and Felix Wankel. Among people deceased in 1992, Günther Anders ranks 32. Before him are Anthony Perkins, Aribert Heim, Nureddin al-Atassi, David Bohm, Algirdas Julien Greimas, and Peyo. After him are John G. Kemeny, Kaysone Phomvihane, Samuel Reshevsky, Takeshi Inoue, César Manrique, and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günther Anders ranks 178 out of 1,694. Before him are Georg Michaelis (1857), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884). After him are John I Albert (1459), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Alice Miller (1923), Robert Lewandowski (1988), and Miroslav Klose (1978).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Günther Anders ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), Christian Wolff (1679), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), and Alfred Tarski (1901). After him are Heinrich Rickert (1863), Paul Tillich (1886), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Chaïm Perelman (1912), Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), and Roman Ingarden (1893).

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