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Ulrich Horstmann
German writer and academic · Germany · On the map · Writers · Born 1949 · age 77
Ulrich Horstmann is a German literary scholar and writer who has also written under the pseudonym Klaus Steintal.
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Frequently described as a philosopher in the tradition of philosophical pessimism, he is perhaps most notorious for his view, often regarded as extreme even among other pessimist philosophers, that voluntary human extinction ought to be achieved by way of intentional global thermonuclear annihilation. Horstmann developed an idea of anthropofugal thinking in his philosophical essay "Das Untier" (1983).
