Iring Fetscher

German political scientist (1922-2014)

Iring Fetscher (4 March 1922 – 19 July 2014) was a German academic, political scientist and researcher on Hegel and Marxism.[1][2]

Fetscher was born at Marbach am Neckar. He was raised in Dresden. After World War II, he studied at Tübingen and Paris.[1] He belatedly published his thesis Hegels Lehre vom Menschen in 1970.[3][4][5]

From 1963 to 1988 Fetschler was Professor of Political Science and Social Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He is identified with the "second generation" of the Frankfurt School, along with Jürgen Habermas and Alfred Schmidt.[6]

In 1976, he published his own version of The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats by the Brothers Grimm, Die Geiß und die sieben Wölflein (English version as "The Goat and the Seven Young Wolves"), as part of the children's book Update on Rumpelstiltskin and other Fairy Tales by 43 Authors, which is compiled by Hans-Joachim Gelberg, illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and published by Beltz & Gelberg.

In 1993, Fetscher was honored with induction into the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.[7]

Fetscher died in Frankfurt, aged 92.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 (in German) Clarissa (2011). Clarissas Krambude: Autoren erzählen von ihren Pseudonymen. novum publishing gmbh. p. 89. ISBN 978-3-99003-914-4.
  2. (in German) "Zum Tod des Politikwissenschafters Iring Fetscher: Humanist in der Nachkriegszeit - Feuilleton Nachrichten - NZZ.ch". Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  3. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (31 May 1981). The Berlin Phenomenology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. xc. ISBN 978-90-277-1205-9.
  4. Hartmut Lehmann; Otto Gerhard Oexle (1 January 1997). Erinnerungstücke: Wege in die Vergangenheit: Rudolf Vierhaus zum 75. Geburtstag gewidmet. Böhlau Verlag Wien. p. 279. ISBN 978-3-205-98824-3.
  5. Michael Schlott (1 January 1998). Wirkungen und Wertungen: Adolph Freiherr Knigge im Urteil der Nachwelt (1796-1994): eine Dokumentensammlung. Wallstein Verlag. p. 233. ISBN 978-3-89244-287-5.
  6. Tom Rockmore (15 April 2008). In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. John Wiley & Sons. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4051-5231-0.
  7. (in German) "Goethe-Universität trauert um Iring Fetscher". Retrieved 21 July 2014.