PHILOSOPHER

Günther Anders

1902 - 1992

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Günther Anders (German pronunciation: [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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günther Anders has received more than 334,320 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Günther Anders is the 348th most popular philosopher (up from 362nd in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Poland (up from 179th 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 348 out of 1,267. Before him are Francisco de Vitoria, Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Uriel da Costa, Richard Rorty, Hipparchia of Maroneia, and Gaius Musonius Rufus. After him are Maurice Halbwachs, Otto Neurath, Pietro Pomponazzi, Isaac Abarbanel, Haji Bektash Veli, and Juan Luis Vives.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Günther Anders ranks 39. Before him are Marcel Breuer, Harold Lasswell, Émile Benveniste, Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, and Reinhard Gehlen. After him are Prince George, Duke of Kent, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Alexandre Kojève, Felix Wankel, Max Ophüls, and Princess Mafalda of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1992, Günther Anders ranks 31. Before him are Aribert Heim, David Bohm, Félix Guattari, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Karl Carstens, and James E. Webb. After him are Kaysone Phomvihane, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Lev Gumilyov, César Manrique, and Denny Hulme.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günther Anders ranks 171 out of 1,694. Before him are Bolesław Bierut (1892), Daniel Libeskind (1946), Władysław Anders (1892), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Jan Potocki (1761), and Andrzej Duda (1972). After him are Isabella Jagiellon (1519), John I Albert (1459), Albert Marth (1828), Marian Rejewski (1905), Grzegorz Lato (1950), and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Günther Anders ranks 10. Before him are Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), and Alfred Tarski (1901). After him are Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Chaïm Perelman (1912), Roman Ingarden (1893), and Kuno Fischer (1824).

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