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Hannah Arendt was born on October 14, 1906, in Hanover, in Wilhelmine Germany. After graduating from high school in Koenigsberg in 1924, Arendt began to study theology that fall at the University of Marburg, where she met the young philosopher Martin Heidegger. Her...
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Roland Barthes was born in Cherbourg, France on November 12, 1915. His father was a naval lieutenant and died in a sea battle one year after Barthes was born. In 1924, the family moved to Paris, where Barthes received his most of his education. From 1962 until his...
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Bergson, Henri (1859-1941) is a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner of literature.Bergson was born in Paris, October 18, 1859, and received his education at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris. He taught in various secondary schools from...
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Ludwig Binswanger was born April 13, 1881, in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, into a family already well established in a medical and psychiatric tradition. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Zurich in 1907. In 1911, Binswanger became the chief medical...
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Maurice Blanchot was born in France in 1907. He is considered one of the key figures of postwar European thought; he has radically transformed the understanding of the relations between philosophy and literature. His strikingly original fiction and his penetrating...
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Otto Friedrich Bollnow first began his career as doctor of physics in 1925 but soon turned his interest toward philosophy and pedagogy. Professor Bollnow is the author of 38 books and over 400 articles and reviews in the area of education and philosophy. He has been...
