Arnold Metzger (24 February 1892 – 16 August 1974) was a German philosopher.
Life
Metzger was born in Landau. He was a student of Edmund Husserl. Having served in World War I, and been imprisoned in Siberia, he made his way back to Germany in 1919. On the way he participated in a soldiers' soviet in Brest-Litovsk.
Having left Nazi Germany, Metzger lived in the United States for 20 years. He returned, and took up a teaching position in Munich.
Metzger died in Bad Gastein, in 1974.
Works
Phänomenologie und Metaphysik (1933), 2nd ed. Pfullingen 1966. Freiheit und Tod (1955), 2nd ed. 1972; English translation (selections) by Ralph Mannheim, 1972. Dämonie und Transzendenz, Pfullingen 1964. Phänomenologie der Revolution, posthumously 1979.