Alfred Sohn-Rethel is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Alfred Sohn-Rethel as Marxist economist and philosopher (1899-1990).
Alfred Sohn-Rethel was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1899. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at University of Bremen.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
That the work was done from Germany matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Alfred Sohn-Rethel died in 1990, aged 91. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Held posts at University of Bremen
