Arnold Ljungdal
Arnold Gottfrid Ljungdal (born August 2, 1901 in Mellerud , Dalsland , † July 12, 1968 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer , translator , philosopher and social democratic politician . He was the first chairman of the Sweden-GDR friendship society .
Life
Ljungdal's parents were wholesaler Gottfrid Ljungdal and Anna Andersson. He grew up in Gothenburg , completed a philosophy degree in Lund in 1922 and received his doctorate in this field in 1926. In Stockholm he worked as a librarian. Ljungdal was one of the founding members of the Swedish Clarté , a social democratic, anti-fascist and non-party organization founded in 1921 on the French model. There he worked as an editor from 1924 to 1925 and was chairman of the Swedish wing from 1944 to 1947. The Marxist Ljungdal founded the Association for Connections with the German Democratic Republic , which was later renamed the Friendship Society Sweden-GDR , and was its chairman until his death.
In Nihilismens filosofi (1943) he exercised moral criticism and settled with the university philosophy prevailing in Sweden as well as Axel Hägerström's theoretical and practical philosophy. Ljungdal formulated the idea that nihilism is the sign of crisis in European culture, has its roots in the capitalist division and specialization of labor, which affects human thinking. In this work Ljungdal does not go into the difference between classical Aristotelian and dialectical logic. He did not examine it until 1947 in his book Marxismens världsbild ( Marxist worldview ).
He was heavily influenced by Walt Whitman and German Expressionism. As a translator, he translated works by Friedrich Hölderlin , Rainer Maria Rilke and Bertolt Brecht into Swedish, among others .
Works (selection)
- Två kvinnospel , 1922
- Till den nya tiden , 1926 (lyric)
- Tiden och tron , 1926
- Morgonrodnad: Skådespel i fem akter , 1927 (play)
- Cultures i fara , 1927
- Fanorna , 1928 (poetry)
- Ungdom , 1931 (poetry)
- I folkton 1934 , 1934 (poetry)
- Farväl till Don Juan , 1941 (novel)
- Nihilismens filosofi , 1943
- Lyriskt bokslut , 1945 (selection of lyrics )
- Marxismens världsbild , 1947
- Katedral , 1950 (poetry)
- Tillomanska klarnad , 1953 (poetry)
- Oavslutat portraits , 1957
- Recap , 1960
- Eld och aska: ett dikturval 1926-1960 , 1963
- Georg Lukács och marxismens estetik , 1967
- Respit , 1968 (poetry)
literature
- Nils Abraham: The GDR's political work abroad in Sweden . LIT, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0268-4 .
- Birgitta Almgren: Inte bara Stasi-: related Sverige-GDR 1949-1990 . Carlsson, Stockholm 2009, ISBN 978-91-7331-253-0 .
- Jan Stenkvist: Arnold Ljungdal, Clarté och tjugotalet . Norstedt, Stockholm 1971.
- Stefan Jonsson: Men as såg tidens eldström: anteckningar om Arnold Ljungdals marxism . Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia No. 60, Lund 1994.
- David Brolin: Arnold Ljungdal och Marxismens världsbild . Föreningen Hften för kritiska studier, Stockholm 1998.
Web links
- David Brolin: Samhällsnyttan och moralen - Arnold Ljungdalskritik av folkhemmets filosofer , accessed on January 1, 2012 (Swedish)
- Arnold Ljungdal: Marxismens världsbild , accessed January 1, 2012 (Swedish)
- Arnold Ljungdal: Nihilismens filosofi , accessed January 1, 2012 (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nils Abraham: The GDR's political work abroad in Sweden , p. 298.
- ↑ Bergmans Mata Hari - ett liv som närmar sig dikten (Swedish), accessed January 1, 2012
- ^ David Brolin: Samhällsnyttan och moralen - Arnold Ljungdalskritik av folkhemmets filosofer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ljungdal, Arnold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ljungdal, Arnold Gottfrid (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer, translator, philosopher and social democratic politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mellerud , Dalsland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1968 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |