Philosophy and exaggeration in the Obsolescence of Human by Günther Anders

Abstract

This work sets out to study the conception of philosophy and the method of exaggeration presented by Günther Anders in his two-volume work The Obsolescence of Man (1956-1980). If as its subject-matter, the core of the work is the concern for the possible self-destruction of mankind in the atomic era; Anders also presents another conception of philosophy and her method as an operatory correlate of that possible annihilation. This new conception of philosophy and her method constitute the justification of the philosophical treatment of the possible self-destruction of mankind.