Günther Anders
Günther Anders · Philosophy & Social Sciences
German philosopher, critic of technology and the nuclear age
1902, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1992, Vienna, Austria
Germany · United States · Austria
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Anders was a German-Austrian philosopher whose critique of technology and the nuclear age — notably 'The Obsolescence of Humankind' — argued that humanity's productive capacities had outrun its moral imagination. Born Günther Siegmund Stern into a Jewish family, a cousin of Walter Benjamin and first husband of Hannah Arendt, he fled the Nazis via France to the United States.
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German philosopher, critic of technology and the nuclear age
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
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