Biography:Arnór Hannibalsson
Arnór Hannibalsson | |
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| Died | 28 December 2012 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Icelandic |
| Occupation | Philosopher, historian |
Arnór Hannibalsson (1934 – 28 December 2012) was an Icelandic philosopher, historian, and translator. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland. He completed a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Moscow and a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
He was predominantly concerned with aesthetics, philosophy, history and epistemology.[1] In 1975 he translated Roman Ingarden's On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism from Polish.[2] He also contributed to journals with articles such as "Icelandic Historical Science in the Postwar Period, 1944-1957".[3]
Arnór had strong anti-Communist views and was said to have been "extremely critical of the Icelandic Socialists" in his 1999/2000 book Moskvulínan: Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands og Komintern, Halldór Laxness og Sovétríkin.[4]
He was the son of Hannibal Valdimarsson, a former minister, and had several sons and one daughter, Thora Arnorsdottir.[5]
He died on 28 December 2012.[5][6]
Main publications
- 1978 Rökfræðileg aðferðafræði (Logical Methodology)
- 1979 Siðfræði vísinda (Ethics of Science)
- 1985 Heimspeki félagsvísinda (Philosophy of Society)
- 1985 Um rætur þekkingar (The Roots of Knowledge)
- 1987 Fagurfræði (Aesthetics)
- 1987 Söguspeki (History Wisdom)
- 1999 Moskvulínan: Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands og Komintern, Halldór Laxness og Sovétríkin (Moscow Line: The Communist Party of Iceland and the Comintern, Halldór Laxness and the Soviet Union)
References
- ↑ Hannibalsson, Arnór (2010). "Epistemology without a Vicious Circle". Phenomenology and Media: 167–180. doi:10.7761/9789731997780_11. ISBN 978-973-1997-77-3. https://www.pdcnet.org/zeta-phenmedia/content/zeta-phenmedia_2010_0000_0000_0167_0180. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ↑ Loscerbo, John (1981). Being and Technology: A Study in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Springer. p. 285. ISBN 978-90-247-2411-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=fWspXHZoABcC&pg=PA285.
- ↑ Current digest of the Soviet press. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1958. https://books.google.com/books?id=cyUJAQAAIAAJ.
- ↑ Olesen, Thorsten B. (2004). The Cold War and the Nordic countries: historiography at a crossroads. University Press of Southern Denmark. p. 91. ISBN 978-87-7838-857-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=pClnAAAAMAAJ.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Arnór Hannibalsson". 24 March 2014. https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1502973/.
- ↑ "Iceland's former foreign minister and Lithuania's honorary consul Arnor Hannibalsson passes away". 2 January 2013. http://www.15min.lt/en/article/world/iceland-s-former-foreign-minister-and-lithuania-s-honorary-consul-arnor-hannibalsson-passes-away-529-292990.
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