{"product_id":"books-the-life-and-work-of-gunther-anders-by-gunter-bischof","title":"The Life and Work of Gunther Anders","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume recovers and reintroduces the work of Gunther Anders (1902-1992), the most neglected German philosopher of the twentieth century, according to Jean-Pierre Dupuy. In his main philosophical work, \u003cem\u003eDie Antiquiert-heit des Menschen\u003c\/em\u003e (1956), Anders developed what he called a philosophy of discrepancy, an analysis of the gap between what we are able to produce and what we are able to imagine. Over a long career stretching almost seventy years, Anders published numerous philosophical essays, short stories, and poetry. His role as an arch-critic of ever more advancing technological mass society, in general, and the nuclear age, in particular, defined him as a public intellectual \u003cem\u003epar excellence\u003c\/em\u003e of the Cold War era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508509696273,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783706553520.jpg?v=1778148473","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-life-and-work-of-gunther-anders-by-gunter-bischof","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}