Arnold Metzger

Arnold Metzger (24 February 1892 – 16 August 1974) was a German philosopher.

Life Metzger was born in Landau. He was a student of Edmund Husserl. Having served in World War I, and been imprisoned in Siberia, he made his way back to Germany in 1919. On the way he participated in a soldiers' soviet in Brest-Litovsk.

Having left Nazi Germany in 1938, Metzger went to Paris first, then to England. From 1941, he lived in the United States for 20 years, where he met Ernst Bloch and accepted US-citizenship in 1947. as an honorary professor for philosophy. Dämonie und Transzendenz, Pfullingen 1964 (lectures read in the USA). Wir arbeiten im gleichen Bergwerk. Correspondence with Ernst Bloch 1942-1972, ed. Karola Bloch, Ilse Metzger, Eberhard Braun. Ffm 1987