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Susanne Simor
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German

The Emigrant

Günther Anders Florian Grosser

With an epilogue by Florian Grosser

"Our essence is not that our lives have been interrupted by an (inescapable) interlude, but that the disintegration of our lives into several lives has become definitive; and that means that the second life stands out at an angle from the first, and the third again from the second, that each time a "bending of the way" has taken place, a bending that makes retrospection - I almost wrote: physically - impossible." Günther Anders

Every emigration is a fundamental break in life. It uproots a person, makes him speechless, lonely and invisible. With unsparing honesty, Günther Anders reports on the shame and disgrace he had to experience in his own existence as a fugitive. His brilliant essay sheds new light on the "main moral malaise" of the 20th century and thus is on a par with other rediscoveries, such as Hannah Arentdt's "The Freedom to Be Free", Theodor W. Adorno's "Aspects of the New Right-Wing Radicalism" or George Orwell's "On Nationalism".
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Main content page count: 96 Pages