Eugene Diesel

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Eugen Diesel (born May 3, 1889 in Paris , † September 22, 1970 in Rosenheim ) was a German writer . He was the son of Rudolf and Louise Martha Diesel (née Bottle).

Diesel lived in Potsdam from 1925, after his marriage to Anna Luise Countess von Waldersee , until 1939 and worked as a freelance writer. He lived there in the manor house of the Bornstedt Crown Estate .

Diesel wrote numerous works on cultural philosophy, such as 1933 Wir und das Auto , 1939 The Phenomenon of Technology , 1950 The Dangerous Century . His approach, which is critical of civilization and science, is based on alienation / reification processes, but not in the sense of a backward-looking machine storm, but in search of social or societal perspectives.

In The Phenomenon of Technology , he primarily deals with the cognitive and creative process of engineers and technicians .

Works

  • Diesel: The human being, the work, the fate , Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg AG, Hamburg-Wandsbek, 1937, 510 pages
  • The phenomenon of technology, testimonies, interpretation and reality , Philipp Reclam Jun. Verlag, Leipzig, VDI-Verlag Berlin, 1939, 258 pages
  • The way through the confusion. The experience of our time , JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1926
  • Humanity in cataracts , Andreas Winkler Verlag Griesbach 1963
  • Civilizational frills. Reification with perspectives 1926 & 1947 , Autonomie und Chaos Leipzig / Berlin 2011 [1]
  • Road trip 1905 , with 23 drawings by Otto Emmerling, Stromverlag, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 1948, 208 pages
  • Turn of the century , Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1949, 304 pages
  • 75 volumes " The New Universe ", 1880–1958. Appreciation of an era and a book , Union Verlag, Stuttgart 1959.

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SURNAME Diesel, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1970
Place of death Rosenheim