Ludwig Klages

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Friedrich Konrad Eduard Wilhelm Ludwig Klages (born December 10, 1872 in Hannover; died July 29, 1956 in Kilchberg, Zurich) was a German philosopher, psychologist and a theoretician in the field of handwritng analysis . He is important because together with Nietzsche and Bergson he anticipated existential phenomenology. He also coined the term logocentrism in the 1920s.

His most important works are:

• Der Geist als Widersacher der Seele (1929)
• Die Grundlagen der Charakterkunde

[edit] External links:

• The Science of Character

• The Biocentric Metaphysics of Ludwig Klages