Background
FETSCHER, Iring was born on March 4, 1922 in Marbach. Son of Professor Rainer Fetscher.
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FETSCHER, Iring was born on March 4, 1922 in Marbach. Son of Professor Rainer Fetscher.
Kdnig-George-Gymnasium, Dresden, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat, Tubingen, Universite de Paris, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt.
He belatedly published his thesis Hegels Lehre vom Menschen in 1970. He habilitated in 1959 with a dissertation on the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. From 1963 to 1988 Fetscher was Professor of Political Science and Social Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
In 1976, he published a fairy tale, which is 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.
Kołakowski, while taking Fetscher to be a distinguished historian of Marxism with a critical but positive attitude, does not see him as of the Frankfurt School more than notionally.
He is identified with the "second generation" of the Frankfurt School, along with Jürgen Habermas and Alfred Schmidt.
German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center.
Married Elisabeth Gotte in 1957.
