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German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)

For the German cinematographer, see Günther Anders (cinematographer).

Günther Anders (German pronunciation:[ˈɡʏntɐˈandɐs]; born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-born^[a] philosopher, journalist and critical theorist.

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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. Back to Europe in the 1950s, he published his major book, The Obsolescence of Man, in 1956. The title of this work has also been translated as The Obsolescence of Humanity.

An important part of Gunther Anders' work focuses on the self-destruction of mankind, through a meditation on the Holocaust and the