PHILOSOPHER

Karl Löwith

1897 - 1973

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Karl Löwith (German: [ˈløːvɪt]; 9 January 1897 – 26 May 1973) was a German philosopher in the phenomenological tradition. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he was one of the most prolific German philosophers of the twentieth century. He is known for his two books From Hegel to Nietzsche, which describes the decline of German classical philosophy, and Meaning in History, which challenges the modern, secular progressive narrative of history, which seeks to ground the meaning of history in itself. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Löwith is the 520th most popular philosopher (down from 504th in 2019), the 1,460th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,339th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Löwith ranks 520 out of 1,267. Before him are Johann Christoph Gottsched, Sergei Bulgakov, Michel Serres, Gilbert Ryle, Vittorino da Feltre, and Jean Améry. After him are Huiyuan, Giles of Rome, Madhvacharya, Ludwig Büchner, Anaxarchus, and Sivananda Saraswati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Karl Löwith ranks 72. Before him are Dmitry Pavlov, Adolf Heusinger, Sepp Herberger, Yuri Kondratyuk, Hans Baur, and Marcel Petiot. After him are Bernard Lyot, Sidney Bechet, Philippe Soupault, Ana Aslan, Lester B. Pearson, and Jean Epstein. Among people deceased in 1973, Karl Löwith ranks 63. Before him are Leo Strauss, Katina Paxinou, Adolf Strauss, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Robert Ryan, and Milunka Savić. After him are José Villalonga, Robert Siodmak, Veronica Lake, Mary Wigman, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Mikhail Kalatozov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Löwith ranks 1,460 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Kaiser (1878), Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Waldemar Hoven (1903), Günter Guillaume (1927), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896), and Jupp Derwall (1927). After him are Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach (1682), Werner Best (1903), Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845), Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), and Josef Bühler (1904).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl Löwith ranks 65. Before him are Paul Natorp (1854), Leo Strauss (1899), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Hermann Lotze (1817), Johannes Althusius (1563), and Axel Honneth (1949). After him are Ludwig Büchner (1824), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Carl Stumpf (1848), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Albert of Saxony (1316), and Karl Korsch (1886).

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