Warnings: Selected Writings on Politics, Language, and Violence

by Günther Anders, Jacob Blumenfeld (Translator), Hunter Bolin (Translator)

Political texts by one of the twentieth century’s preeminent thinkers on war crimes, technolgy, and fascism

Günther Anders—poet, philosopher, agitator, anti-fascist—was one of the most prolific writers on the disaster called the twentieth century, writing more than thirty books on technology, art, literature, philosophy, and politics. More a heretic than a hero, Anders placed Hiroshima and Auschwitz together in a single paradigm of catastrophe, warning that humanity, with the advent of the atom bomb, had entered a new epoch of It now possessed the technical capacity to destroy its own conditions of existence. Despite being close to some of the most important names in twentieth-century German philosophy and literature, his expansive body of work has only recently begun to be discovered by Anglophone readers. Now, for the first time in English, this volume brings together a selection of his texts written between 1933 and 1991: warnings, fables, reflections on violence, war crimes, education and resistance, interviews, speeches. To understand our burning world and apocalyptic present, Günther Anders’s work is indispensable.

272 pages, Paperback

Expected publication August 3, 2027

About the author

Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern) was a German philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet. He was trained in the phenomenological tradition, he developed a philosophical anthropology for the age of technology, focusing on such themes as the effects of mass media on our emotional and ethical existence, the illogic of religion, the nuclear threat, the Shoah, and the question of being a philosopher. In 1992, shortly before his death, Günther Anders was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize.