Günther Anders
(Guenther Anders, Gunther Anders)

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• Dec. 29, 2012: Jason Dawsey defended his dissertation "The Limits of the Human Being in the Age of Technological Revolution: Günther Anders, Post-Marxism, and the Emergence of Technology Critique" at the University of Chicago a couple of weeks ago. He noted that shortened versions of three of the chapters of Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (1956) were published in English in the 1950s/60s:
  • “The World as Phantom and as Matrix.” Dissent 3:1(Winter 1956), 14-24. (pdf, web)
  • “Reflections on the H Bomb.” Dissent 3:2(Spring 1956), 146-155. (pdf)
  • “Being without Time: On Beckett’s Play Waiting for Godot,” in Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Martin Esslin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965), 140-151. (pdf coming ... soon?)
• Dec. 29, 2012: I've scanned to pdf most of Anders' 1968 book Visit Beautiful Vietnam ABC der Aggressionen heute (Cologne: Pahl Rügenstein, 1968): pdf pp. 1-151, 200-209.
• Feb. 17, 2012: A 2011 French film based on Anders' long-unpublished 1931 novel The Molussian Catacomb was just screened at the Berlin film festival. Titled "anders, Molussien" in German, French and English (thus: "differently, Molussia"), the 81 min. film by young director Nicolas Rey (no relation to other famous Rey filmmakers) is comprised of 9 reels, which are shown in varying order depending on the choice of the projectionist. Berliniale page with director's statement .
• Oct. 21, 2010: After receiving an inquiry about a quotation from Anders' main work, I found a pdf of Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen: Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution (vol. 1, 1956; 1961 edition), and re-uploaded it here to make it more easily accessible. It can also be searched on google books.
  • Vol. 2: Über die Zerstörung des Lebens im Zeitalter der dritten industriellen Revolution (1980; 1992 edition) is also available on google books. The quotation in question:
    "...the fact, that the world, in which we live and which determines us, is a technological one - which extends so far, that we are not allowed to say, that in our historical situation there is among other things technology, rather do we have to say: within the world's status called "technology" history happens, in other words technology has become the subject of history, in which we are only "co-historical."
    is from the Vorwort (preface) of vol. 2, p. 9 (see pdf screenshot).
• Oct. 6, 2010: New anecdote about a visit in Anders' Vienna apartment in 1986 added. It was recorded by German literary critic Fritz Raddatz in his diaries, which were just published.
• Sept. 17, 2010: Since this past July (2010) there has been a GuentherAndersInternational email list (a yahoo group). There are currently 13 members, including Raimund Bahr, Gerhard Oberschlick, and myself.
• Apr. 30, 2010: The Günther Anders Tage 2010, "Zur Aktualität von Günther Anders," will be held on 14.-15. May in Marburg, Germany. For the detailed program, see:
  http://www.editionas.net/
• Jan. 10, 2010 (updated 1/16/2011) : The Günther Ander Forum website, maintained by Raimund Bahr, is moving from http://www.guentheranders.at to the blog at http://www.guentheranders.com. You can subscribe to the Society's newletter there.
  1/16/2011: both sites appear to have disappeared from the web. Bahr's twitter page doesn't seem to have much to do with Anders.
  Bahr's comprehensive biography of Anders is due out this May:
  • Raimund Bahr, Günther Anders: Leben und Denken im Wort (Edition Art & Science, 2010), 330 Seiten. (amazon.de page)
    Also, on May 14-15 the an Anders symposium will be held in Marburg.
• Aug. 31, 2009: some corrections and links added after corresponding with Mario Beira, Ph.D. for his study of Hitler and Heidegger. About Anders' name change: the first publications under the name "Anders" were in May 1932, according to the 1995 bibliography:
  • Plafi, der plastische Film. Nr. 221 vom 13.5.1932, S. 5-6. [Günther Anders].
    Der Star der Polizei. Nr. 233 vom 21.5.1932, 6-7. [Günther Anders].
  • The 1935 Amsterdam story "Der Hungermarsch" was published under "Anders," but his reviews for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung from 1937 to 1939 were published under "Stern."
  • A 1948 publication used both names:
    On the Pseudo-Concreteness of Heidegger's Philosophy. In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 3, 1948 (unter: Günther Stern-Anders)
• Sept. 23, 2007: New secondary literature added to Books and Articles section:
  • Daniel Morat, "Die Aktualität der Antiquiertheit. Günther Anders' Anthropologie des industriellen Zeitalters," in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 3 (2006) H. 2, <http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/16126041-Morat-2-2006>
• July 30, 2007: The site Les Amis de Némésis has published, in French, three texts by Anders, and one about him (direct links from my Anders Links page):
  • Pathologie de la liberté, Essai sur la non-identification (1937, by Günther Stern)
  • Une interprétation de l'a posteriori (1934, by Günther Stern)
  • Théorie des besoins, suivies d’une discussion entre Adorno, Anders, Brecht, Eisler, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Reichenbach (August 1942)
  • Jean-Pierre Baudet: Günther Anders, De l'anthropologie négative à la philosophie de la technique (Part I, Part II forthcoming)
• April 16, 2006: Anders' papers, previously adminstered by Gerhard Oberschlick, were given in 2004 to the Austrian National Library in Vienna, where they are administered by Bernhard Fetz: Bernhard.Fetz@onb.ac.at.
  • Austrian National Library Anders' Page
• August 1, 2005: link to detailed French Wikipedia article by Thierry Simonelli added to links page. Also created web-formatted archive copy of Heinz Scheffelmeier's 1995 bibliography.
• July 20, 2005: Another book added to the Books and Articles section: Berthold Wiesenberger, Enzyklopädie der apokalyptischen Welt: Kulturphilosophie, Gesellschaftstheorie und Zeitdiagnose bei Günther Anders und Theodor W. Adorno (Munich: Herbert Utz, 2003).
• May 2005: Site redesigned and reorganized, links updated, vanished pages archived from webarchive.org.
  New publication added to Books and Articles section: Thierry Simonelli, Günther Anders: De la désuétude de l'homme (Paris: Éditions du Jasmin, 2004), 96pp.
• September 2004: University of Chicago dissertation prospectus by Jason Dawsey: "History after Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the Twentieth Century". This 30-page document outlines Anders' life, with emphasis on his publications and their influence. It is the best English-language biography I have seen.
• April 2004: new pages on Anders' third wife, Charlotte Zelka; with a description of visit with Anders in 1986; also a link to French edition of the Antiquiertheit

Anders Page Introduction (back to top)

No philosopher has concerned him- or herself with the nuclear age in all of its ramifications as has the late Günther Anders. A Jewish journalist and intellectual who fled Nazi Germany with his wife Hannah Arendt in 1933, Anders returned to Europe in 1950 to become one of the founders of the anti-nuclear movement there. In 1956 he published his magnum opus The Antiquatedness of Humankind (actually, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen has never been translated into English), more than half of which is devoted to "The Bomb and the Roots of Our Blindness toward the Apocalypse." After participating in the "Fourth International Congress against A- and H-Bombs and for Disarmament" in Tokyo in 1958, Anders published his philosophically oriented personal journal as The Man on the Bridge: A Diary from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1959. Anders published his correspondence with Claude Eatherly, the US pilot who gave the drop command on the Hiroshima mission, in 1961 as Burning Conscience: The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot Claude Eatherly, told in his Letters to Günther Anders. It has been republished several times and translated into 18 languages. After that Anders' published several books of reflections on morality in the atomic age. There has been some criticism of Anders because he openly advocated violence to combat regimes that flagrantly disregard human rights. (See his 1987 texts, below)

A personal note by Harold Marcuse, the author of this page (back to top)

My grandfather Herbert Marcuse (my website about Herbert) and Anders both studied with Martin Heidegger in Freiburg in the 1920s. As Jews, both fled from Germany to the US in the 1930s. Anders lived in my grandparents' home in the US for a time in the early 1940s. I corresponded with Anders in the early 1980s, shortly after my grandfather's death in 1979, while I was living in Germany. Since I had been too young to have a political relationship with my grandfather, Anders at one point jokingly said that he was in a way my Ersatz-Grossvater (surrogate grandfather). (See this July 27, 1988 letter from Anders responding to the birth announcement of my son in 1988.) I think Anders may have been somewhat envious of the fame my grandfather's One Dimensional Man (1964) had brought him during the heady days of the student movement.
Anders said that much of what Herbert wrote was contained in his own Antiquiertheit (1956)[Christian Fuchs' essay compares their work], but Anders was barely known by the broader public until the 1980s. In any case, when I went to Vienna in April 1983, I visited Anders at his flat in the Lackierergasse. He was very cordial, and may have "buried the hatchet" (real or imagined) with my then deceased grandfather by that time. (Compare Nathan Stolzfus' description of his visit with Anders in 1986.) In April 1982 Anders inscribed volume I of his Ketzereien for my parents with the words "für meine drei beinahe-Kinder" ('for my three nearly-children'--don't ask me why three); in July 1983 he wrote into my copy of Die atomare Drohung "in durch die Generationen unerschütterlich reichender Freundschaft." ('in unshakeable friendship that reaches across the generations')[see thumbnail at right].
In the 1980s I was a U.S. student working towards an M.A. in History of Art in Germany. In 1992, after finishing my dissertation about the post-1945 history of Dachau, I became a professor of German history at UC Santa Barbara. In the late 1990s Routledge was looking for someone to write an article about Anders for its Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (1999, amazon.com page), and I volunteered. That encyclopedia entry forms the core of the biographical text below. At that time there was almost nothing about Anders on the web, so I created this page.

Günther Anders and Hannah Arendt

Anders, born Günther Stern, attained notoriety since the early 1960s as an activist and philosopher of the antinuclear movement. An assimilated German Jew, he studied under Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, completing his dissertation in 1923. After Theodor Adorno at the University of Frankfurt rejected his habilitation, he began work as a cultural critic. When a Berlin editor with too many writers named Stern on his staff suggested he name himself "something different," he responded "then call me 'different'" ("anders"). The name is characteristic of Anders' unsparing bluntness. He emigrated to Paris in 1933 and the United States in 1936, divorcing Hannah Arendt, who found his pessimism "hard to bear," as he later put it. [They were married from 1929 to 1937. The photo is from the Hannah Arendt Trust, and is displayed on the Library of Congress website.][An aside on Arendt, whose 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, and coining of the phrase "the banality of evil" in her 1962 New Yorker reports on the Eichmann trial catapulted her to lasting name recognition: Ron Rosenbaum has this interesting analysis of her closeness to Nazi ideologues like Heidegger: "The Evil of Banality" (Slate, Oct. 30, 2009)]

In the United States Anders worked at menial jobs, but also wrote for the German-language newspaper Der Aufbau, and later lectured at the New School for Social Research in New York City. His first book of philosophical reflexions, Die Schrift an der Wand: Tagebücher 1941-1966 (The Writing on the Wall: Diaries 1941-1966) (1967), begins with his musings as a laborer in a Hollywood warehouse of historical costumes. Auschwitz and Hiroshima mark turning points in his consciousness. He returned to Europe in 1950 and began work on Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (The Outdatedness of Human Beings, 1956). In addition to analyzing human feelings of inadequacy in comparison with machines, and to a philosophical settling of accounts with Heidegger, Anders lays out the principles of 'blindness to the apocalypse,' the focus of his later work. Pressured to categorize his ideas, he later coined the term Diskrepanzphilosophie (philosophy of discrepancy) to describe his focus on the increasing divergence between what has become technically feasible (e.g. the nuclear holocaust of the entire globe), and what the human mind is capable of imagining.

With Robert Jungk, Anders co-founded the antinuclear movement in 1954. He published his philosophical diary of an international conference in Hiroshima (Der Mann auf der Brücke, The Mann on the Bridge, 1959) and his correspondence with a pilot in the Hiroshima squadron (Burning Conscience, 1962). His politically acerbic books from the 1960s include an open letter to the son of Adolf Eichmann, a speech about the victims of the three world wars, and a primer of American warspeak in Vietnam. In 1967 he served as a juror on the Russell tribunal publicizing atrocities in Vietnam. Anders' oeuvre encompasses numerous literary and philosophical works, including books on Kafka (1951, English 1960) and Brecht (1962), essays on the atomic age (Endzeit und Zeitenende, Die atomare Drohung, 1972, 1981), reflections from his diaries (among others Ketzereien, Heresies, 1982), and a second volume of Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (1980).

From 1945 to 1955 Anders was married to the Austrian writer Elizabeth Freundlich; in 1957 he married the Jewish-American pianist Charlotte Lois Zelka. (Charlotte died in 2001; see this page of correspondence with her sister Betty and colleague Al R. Rice: link.)

Anders won numerous awards and honors for his work from 1936 (Novella Prize of the Emigration, for "The Hunger March") to 1978 (Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts), to 1979 (Austrian State Prize for Cultural Writing) to 1983 (Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt) to 1992 (Sigmund-Freud-Prize); others he rejected for political reasons.

His unsparingly critical pessimism may explain why his pathbreaking works have seldom sparked sustained public discussion, with the major exception of his Theses on Violence (scans on this site) during the peace movement of the 1980s. The renaissance of interest in his works in the 1990s indicates that his uncompromising moralism may have been ahead of its time.

Other Anders Biographies (see also "books about section", below) (back to top)

• Harold Marcuse: a print version of the above English biography (the above version has a few additional details)
• Text+Kritik special issue, July 1992 (see Books About section, below). This is your one-stop source for everything up to 1992. Unfortunately the texts are NOT on line, except for the vita by Jan Strümpel (table form, in German), which I've scanned.
• Jason Dawsey: "History after Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the Twentieth Century". This 30-page essay outlines Anders' life, with emphasis on his publications and their influence. The best English-language biography available.

Anders' Publications (back to top)

• 1924 dissertation (Universität Freiburg): Die Rolle der Situationskategorie bei den logischen Sätzen. Erster Teil einer Untersuchung über die Rolle der Situationskategorie
• 1928 (edited version of dissertation??): Über das Haben: Sieben Kapitel zur Ontologie der Erkenntnis
  • Bonn: Cohen
• 1932 (completed): Die molussische Katakombe
• first published in 1992
• €25 at amazon.de, with summary
• 1936: "Pathologie de la Liberté"
  • in the journal Recherches Philosophiques
  • Sartre said that this essay was influential in his formulation of Existentialism
• 1936: Der Hungermarsch
  • novella, won Novella Prize of the Emigration in 1936
• 1948: "On the Pseudo-Concreteness of Heidegger's Philosophy"
• in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 3, 1948
• author's name: Günther Stern-Anders
• 1951: Kafka Pro und Contra: Die Prozessunterlagen
  • English 1960
• 1956: Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen
  • Munich: Beck, 2002. €13 at amazon.de
  • title translates as: The Outdatedness of Human Beings
  • published 2002 in French as L'obsolescence d'homme: Sur l’âme à l’époque de la deuxième révolution industrielle, by Encyclopédie des nuisances. (amazon.fr page)
    (French table of contents)
  • blurb about Antiquiertheit vol. 1 in a list of book recommendations published in Die Welt, 9 Nov. 2002 (archive copy).
  • Dr. Frank Hartmann, lecture about Antiquiertheit vol. 1 in a course about Media Philosophy at the University of Vienna
• 1959: Der Mann auf der Brücke: Tagebuch aus Hiroshima und Nagasaki
  • Munich, C. H. Beck, 2nd edition 1963
  • in: Hiroshima ist überall, 1982, pp. 1-190
• title translates as: The Mann on the Bridge
• 1961: George Grosz
  • Zürich, Arche
• 1961: Burning Conscience: The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot Claude Eatherly, told in his Letters to Günther Anders
  • (New York/London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961), 135 pages
  • preface by Bertrand Russell and introduction by Robert Jungk.
  • $10 at amazon.com
  • German: Off Limits für das Gewissen: Der Briefwechsel zwischen dem Hiroshima-Piloten Claude Eatherly und Günther Anders
  • Berlin, Rowohlt
  • also in: Hiroshima ist überall, 1982, pp. 191-360.
  • French: Avoir détruit Hiroshima: Correspondance de Claude Eatherly, le pilote d’Hiroshima, avec Günther Anders 1959, éd. Robert Laffont, 1962.
• 1962: Bert Brecht: Gespräche und Erinnerungen
  • Zürich, Arche
• 1964: "Die Toten: Rede über die drei Weltkriege"
• title translates as "Speech about the Three World Wars"
• completed October 18, 1964
• FAZ 1964; Cologne: Pahl-Rügenstein, 1965
• in: Hiroshima ist überall, 1982, pp. 361-394
• short excerpt translated by Harold Marcuse, for use in the memory to action project
• 1964: Wir Eichmannsöhne: Offener Brief an Klaus Eichmann
  • title translates as We Sons of Eichmann: Open Letter to Klaus Eichmann
  • in French: Nous, fils d'Eichmann: lettre ouverte à Claude Eichmann (1999, 2003) (amazon.fr EUR 7)(table of contents--scroll down)(bibliothèque Rivages, 1999)
• 1965: Philosophische Stenogramme
• 1968: Der Blick vom Turm: Fables
  • (Munich: Beck, 1988), with illustrations by A. Paul Weber, €15 at amazon.de
  • fable "freedom", illustrates the concept of repressive tolerance, translated by Harold Marcuse
• 1968: Nürnberg und Vietnam: Synoptisches Mosaik
  • Berlin, Voltaire
• 1968: Visit beautiful Vietnam
  • Köln, Pahl-Rugenstein
  • collection of quotations on freenet.de
• 1970: Der Blick vom Mond: Reflexionen über Weltraumflüge
• 1972: Endzeit und Zeitenende
• 1978: Kosmologische Humoreske
• 1979: Besuch im Hades: Auschwitz und Breslau 1966, nach "Holocaust" 1979
• 1980: Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, vol. II: Über die Zerstörung des Lebens im Zeitalter der dritten industriellen Revolution.
  • €13 at amazon.de (5th edition; page has a few reviews)
• 1981: Die atomare Drohung: Radikale Überlegungen zum atomaren Zeitalter
• 1982: Hiroshima ist überall
  • Munich: Beck
• 1982: Ketzereien
  • (Munich: Beck, 1982)
  • title translates as Heresies
• 1984: Mensch ohne Welt: Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur
• 1984: Das Günther Anders Lesebuch
  • Zurich: Diogenes, 1984), 335 pages
  • edited by Bernhard Lassahn
  • UCLA PT2601.A54 A14 1984
• 1985: Tagebücher und Gedichte
• 1986: Lieben gestern
  • Observations about US students in the 1940s, originally titled "Lieben heute"
• 1987: Günther Anders antwortet: Interviews & Erklärungen
  • (Critica diabolis)(Tiamat, 1987), 203 pages.
• 1987: Gewalt – ja oder nein: Eine notwendige Diskussion
  • title translates as: Violence: Yes or No? A Necessary Discussion
  • full text as scanned images on this site
  • collection of quotations on freenet.de
• 1987: Mariechen: Eine Gutenachtgeschichte für Liebende, Philosophen, ...
• 1987: "Reicht der gewaltlose Protest?"
  • taz, 9 May 1987 (archive copy)
  • title translates as "Is non-violent protest enough?"
  • 16. Juli 1987 response by Horst Mahler, "Ist Dein Mut zu töten wirklich so gross?"
    open letter to the philosopher Günther Anders
• 1988: "Die Augenbinde der Justitia"
  • subtitle: Fünf philosophische Überlegungen anläßlich des Prozesses gegen Robert Jungk"
  • in: taz 16. April 1988, p. 3
• 1988: "Sicherheit durch die Zerstörung der Zerstörungsmittel"
  • title translation: "Security through the destruction of the means of destruction"
  • greeting to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • text on the IPPNW website
• 1994: Obdachlose Skulptur: Über Rodin (C.H. Beck, 1994), 124pp. (amazon)
• 2001: Über Heidegger, edited by Gerhard Oberschlick (Munich, C. H. Beck, 2001), 480p. €35.
  • posthumous publication of selections from Anders' papers
  • "Die Texte in diesem Band dokumentieren diese Auseinandersetzung und zeichnen den Weg der langsamen Ablösung von Heidegger, dem "heimlichen König" der deutschen Philosophie (Hannah Arendt), nach. Anders kehrte sich von 1930 an ebenso regelmäßig von der Philosophie ab, wie er sich ihr wieder zuwandte; zeitlebens suchte er die politische Intervention. Seine Arbeiten über Heidegger zeugen von kritischer Angriffslust, von stilistischer Schärfe, aber auch von seinem philosophischen Ernst. Denn Anders’ Einwendungen gegen Heidegger sind mehr als äußerliche Ideologiekritik. Es finden sich bei ihm Einwände, die in den Kern von Heideggers Denken selbst eingreifen."
  • perlentaucher.de page with reviews from the FR, Zeit, SZ, NZZ, FAZ
• 2003: Übertreibungen in Richtung Wahrheit: Stenogramme, Glossen, Aphorismen
• posthumous publication of selections from Anders' papers

Bibliographies (back to top)

• Detailed, comprehensive bibliography of Anders' works up to 1995, by Heinz Scheffelmeier, Berlin. This contains a list of unpublished manuscripts in Anders' papers in Vienna:
  1. "Stadt der 100 Götter"; entstanden um 1922.
  2. Museumsführer durch den Louvre; entstanden Ende der 20er Jahre.
  3. Anthropologische Schriften; 1927-1939
  4. Heidegger-Kritiken; 1933-1954.
  5. "Philosophische Untersuchungen über musikalische Situationen"; geplante Habilitationsschrift aus den Jahren 1930/31.
  6. "Die Staffete"; gesammelte Dichtungen.
  7. "SS-Mann Kohn"; Roman, Manuskript auf 1946 datiert.
  8. "Hesternien"; entstanden 1946-1948, ca. 300 Manuskriptseiten.
  9. Vorlesungen "Philosophie der Kunst" und "Philosophische Anthropologie", 1948-49.
  10. Band 2 und 3 der "Ketzereien".
  11. Band 2 und 3 der "Philosophischen Stenogramme"
  12. Buch zum Thema "SDI"
  13. Band 3 zur "Antiquiertheit des Menschen".

Books, articles and on-line texts about Anders (back to top)

• Gabriele Althaus: Leben zwischen Sein und Nichts. Drei Studien zu Günther Anders (Metropol Verlag, 1989), 136pp. (amazon)
• Austriaca: Cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'Autriche, Issue 35 (Dec. 1992) is about Günther Anders. (200p; by Université de Rouen)(page on amazon.fr)
• Detlef Clemens, Günther Anders. Eine Studie über die Ursprünge seiner Philosophie, Frankfurt, Haag und Herchen, 1996.
• Reinhard Ellensohn, Der Andere Anders: Gunther Anders als Musikphilosoph (Europaische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 20, Philosophie) (Peter Lang, Jan. 2008), 191pp. (amazon page)
• Mathias Greffrath (ed.): Die Zerstörung einer Zukunft: Gespräche mit emigrierten Sozialwissenschaftlern. Reinbek 1979 (Rowohlt), interview with Anders
• Handlung Kultur Interpretation: Zeitschrift für Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften.
  • Issue 3(2003) is devoted to "Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen – Günther Anders" (pp. 198-273)
  • humanities online page with text of preface and abstracts
  • Contents:
    Vorwort 1997
    Ludger Lütkehaus, " Von der Aktualität eines »Antiquierten«. Vor hundert Jahren wurde Günther Anders geboren" 207
    Ernst Schraube, "Der Blick vom Turm. Günther Anders und das Problem der Versprachlichung technologischer Praxis" 215
    Volker Kempf, "Unsere tragische Kultur vor Augen. Zur Aktualität von Günther Anders – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Bezüge zu Georg Simmel" 230
    Christophe David und Dirk Röpcke, "Zweierlei Verantwortungsethik. Günther Anders und Hans Jonas und die Antinomien der heutigen politischen Ökologie" 250
• Frank Hartmann, "Von der Reproduktion zur Simulation. Günther Anders' Kulturapokalypse." In: Frank Hartmann: Medienphilosophie, Wien 2000 (WUV-Universitätsverlag), pp. 213-236
• Robert Jungk, "Die Kraft des Menschen: Robert Jungk grüßt Günther Anders, den langjährigen Bundesgenossen mit freundschaftlichen Erinnerungen," in: Der Standard. 11./12.7.1992, p. 9
• Volker Kempf has several texts about Anders, 1997-2001 on his website
• Jürgen Langenbach, Günther Anders. Eine Monographie (Vienna: Falter, 1986).
• Konrad Paul Liessmann (ed.), Günther Anders kontrovers (Munich: Beck, 1992).
• Konrad Paul Liessmann, Günther Anders zur Einführung (Hannover 1993).
• Konrad Liessmann, "Moralist und Ketzer: Zu Günther Anders und seiner Philosophie des Monströsen," Text und Kritik 115(July 1992): 3-19.
  • The introductory article in a special journal issue devoted to Anders and his work.
• Ludger Lütkehaus, Philosophieren nach Hiroshima: Über Günther Anders (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer Tb, 1992).
• Ludger Lütkehaus, Schwarze Ontologie. Über Günther Anders
  • (Zu Klampen, 2002), 135 pages
  • amazon.de €14
  • Lütkehaus, born 1943, is a professor of modern German literature at the University of Freiburg.
  • Zu Klampen's Lütkehaus page
• Nach Tschernobyl - regiert wieder das Vergessen? (Psychosozial-Verlag)
• Gustav Mechlenburg, "Kultiviere deine Angst! Zu Günther Anders"
  • a post-911 reflection at textem.de, which seems to be a publisher that has essays on its website.
• Daniel Morat, "Die Aktualität der Antiquiertheit. Günther Anders’ Anthropologie des industriellen Zeitalters," in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 3 (2006) H. 2, <http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/16126041-Morat-2-2006>
• Sabine Palandt, Die Kunst der Vorausschau: Günther Anders methodische und psychologische Ansätze zur Technikkritik (Vlg. Wissenschaft & Technik, 1999), 207pp (amazon)
• Werner Reimann, Verweigerte Versöhnung. Zur Philosophie von Günther Anders (Vlg. Passagen)
• Dirk Röpcke & Raimund Bahr (eds.), Geheimagent der Masseneremiten: Günther Anders
  • (Edition Art & Science/G. Anders Forum: 2002), 160 pages, € 20,-.
  • The title translates as "Secret Agent of the Hermits of the Masses."
  • This anthology represents the latest scholarship about Anders, intending to make him more accessible to new readers. It includes essays that compare his work to that of Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Sartre.
  • Ordering info at: Art & Science page, Anders Forum page, Kritische Theorie.net page.
  • Available online: Christian Fuchs, "Zu einigen Parallelen und Differenzen im Denken von Günther Anders und Herbert Marcuse"
  • Rezension in der Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Elke Schubert, Günther Anders. Mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten (Rowohlt 1992), 154pp.
  • DM11,- amazon.de page (Aug. 2002: no longer in print, and none offered by ZVAB or ABE-affiliate Antbo.com at this time)
• Thierry Simonelli, Günther Anders: De la désuétude de l'homme (Paris: Éditions du Jasmin, 2004)
  • EUR 11 at amazon.fr
  • excerpt on-line: "Le monde, «Vu à la télé »"
  • title translates as On the Disuse of Man
• Jan Strümpel, "Vita, Bibliographie," Text und Kritik 115(July 1992), 86-101.
  • vita available on-line
  • This comprehensive bibliography includes secondary works.
  • Page on this special issue at the Text und Kritik website (with table of contents)
• Paul van Dijk, Anthropology in the Age of Technology: The Philosophical Contribution of Gunther Anders, Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 2000. (van Dijk in google books)
• Berthold Wiesenberger, Enzyklopädie der apokalyptischen Welt: Kulturphilosophie, Gesellschaftstheorie und Zeitdiagnose bei Günther Anders und Theodor W. Adorno (Munich: Herbert Utz, 2003).
  • This dissertation examines the connections between Anders' philosophy and Adorno's thought.
  • Costs 49 Euro. See the publisher's page for more information.
• Eckhard Wittulski, Kein Ort. Nirgends. Zur Gesellschaftskritik Günther Anders, Frankfurt, Haag und Herchen, 1998.

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