Arnór Hannibalsson

Arnór Hannibalsson (1934 – 28 December 2012) was an Icelandic philosopher, historian, and translator and former 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.

<Arnór Hannibalsson
Born(1934-03-24)24 March 1934
Died28 December 2012(2012-12-28) (aged 78)
NationalityIcelandic
OccupationPhilosopher, historian

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

  1. Hannibalsson, Arnór (2010). "Epistemology without a Vicious Circle". Phenomenology and Media: 167–180. doi:10.7761/9789731997780_11. ISBN 978-973-1997-77-3. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. Loscerbo, John (1981). Being and Technology: A Study in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Springer. p. 285. ISBN 978-90-247-2411-6.
  3. Current digest of the Soviet press. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1958.
  4. 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.
  5. "Arnór Hannibalsson". Morgunblaðið. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  6. "Iceland's former foreign minister and Lithuania's honorary consul Arnor Hannibalsson passes away". 15 min. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2019.


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