biography
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| (1892–1985)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and social theorist, born in Wiesbaden, WC Germany. He studied zoology, medicine, and philosophy at Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Berlin. He was professor at Cologne (1926–34), then moved to Groningen in Holland to escape the Nazis, but was expelled from there in 1942. He returned to Groningen in 1946, and moved to Göttingen in 1951. He helped found the new discipline of ‘philosophical anthropology’, as expounded in such works as Die Einheit der Sinne (1923, The Unity of the Senses), and also wrote on social philosophy and the origins of Fascism. |
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