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]

Leaving Nazi Germany, Metzger lived in the United States for 20 years. He returned, and took up a teaching position in Munich.[2]

Metzger died in Bad Gastein, in 1974.

Works
  • Phänomenologie und Metaphysik (1933)[2]
  • Freiheit und Tod (1955), English translation (selections) by Ralph Mannheim, 1972.[3]
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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. Spiegelberg, E. (2012-12-06). The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 249. ISBN 9789400974913. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  3. 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.


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