Arnold Metzger

Arnold Metzger (24 February 1892 – 16 August 1974) was a German philosopher.

Life

Metzger was born in Landau. He was a student of Edmund Husserl. Having served in World War I, and been imprisoned in Siberia, he made his way back to Germany in 1919. On the way he participated in a soldiers' soviet in Brest-Litovsk.[1]

Having left Nazi Germany in 1938, Metzger went to Paris first, then to England.[2] From 1941 he lived in the United States for 20 years, where he met Ernst Bloch and accepted US-citizenship in 1947.[2] In 1952 he returned and took up a teaching position in Munich[3] as an honorary professor for philosophy.[2] From 1958 he held German citizenship again.[2]

Metzger died in Bad Gastein, in 1974.

Works

  • Phänomenologie und Metaphysik (1933),[3] 2nd ed. Pfullingen 1966.
  • Freiheit und Tod (1955), 2nd ed. 1972; English translation (selections) by Ralph Mannheim, 1972.[4]
  • Dämonie und Transzendenz, Pfullingen 1964 (lectures read in the USA).[2]
  • Phänomenologie der Revolution, posthumously 1979.[5]
  • Wir arbeiten im gleichen Bergwerk. Correspondence with Ernst Bloch 1942-1972, ed. Karola Bloch, Ilse Metzger, Eberhard Braun. Ffm 1987[6]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Gandt, François de (2004). Husserl et Galilée: sur la crise des sciences européennes (in French). Vrin. p. 34. ISBN 9782711617289. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e Henckmann, Wolfhart (1994). "Metzger, Arnold – Neue Deutsche Biographie 17". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  3. ^ a b Spiegelberg, E. (2012-12-06). The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 249. ISBN 9789400974913. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  4. ^ Bruzina, Ronald (2008-10-01). Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928?1938. Yale University Press. pp. 73 note 1. ISBN 9780300130157. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  5. ^ Dikovich, Albert (2017-12-20). "Arnold Metzger (1892 — 1974)". Internationales Jahrbuch für philosophische Anthropologie (in German). 7 (1): 261–278. doi:10.1515/jbpa-2017-0118. ISSN 2192-4287.
  6. ^ Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren – Archiv Bibliographia Judaica, ed. Renate Heuer. Munich etc., K. G. Saur 1997, vol. iii, p. 103.


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