Information AboutArnold Gehlen |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ARNOLD GEHLEN | |
| 1904 births | |
| 1976 deaths | |
| german philosophers | |
| german sociologists | |
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His major influences while studying philosophy were Hans Driesch , Nicolai Hartmann and especially Max Scheler . He joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and had a shining career as a member of the ' Leipzig School ' under Hans Freyer . He replaced Paul Tillich , who emigrated to the U.S. , at the University Of Frankfurt . In 1938 he accepted a teaching position at the University of Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad ) and then taught at the University Of Vienna in 1940 until he was drafted into the '' Wehrmacht '' in 1943. After his ' Denazification ' he taught at the administrative college in Speyer . He went on to teach at the Aachen University Of Technology between 1962 and 1969 . Gehlen became a sharp critic of the Protest movements that developed in the late 1960s . Gehlen's philosophy has been influential for many contemporary Neoconservative German thinkers. Many terms from his work, like '' Reizüberflutung '' ("overabundance of stimuli"), Deinstitutionalization or post- History , have gained popular currency in Germany. SELECTED WRITINGS
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