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

• Biography (in German) on Deutsche Biographie