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Karl Löwith
German philosopher (1897-1973) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 76
Karl Löwith was a German philosopher best known for his critiques of historicism and his analysis of secularization in modern thought.
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A student of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl during the Weimar Republic, Löwith developed a distinctive philosophical position that questioned the progressivist assumptions underlying much of nineteenth and twentieth-century European philosophy, and is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
