Fritz Heinemann (philosopher)

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Fritz Heinemann (8 February 1889 – 7 January 1970) was a German philosopher.

Born in Lüneburg, he taught at Frankfurt University from 1930 to 1933. From 1939 to 1956, he taught at Manchester College, Oxford.^[1]

In Neue Wege der Philosophie (1929) Heinemann heralded the rise of the Existential movement by coining the term Existenzphilosphie, translated as Existentialism.

Works

• Plotin Forschungen über die plotinische Frage, 1921
• Neue Wege der Philosophie, 1929
• Odysseus oder die Zukunft der Philosophie, 1939
• Existentialism and the Modern Predicament, 1953

References

External links

• Chronology of life (in German)