The Life and Work of Gunther Anders: Emigre, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters

The Life and Work of Gunther Anders: Emigre, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of LettersThis 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,

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.