Arnór Hannibalsson (1934 – 28 December 2012) was an

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ic philosopher, historian, and translator. He was a professor of philosophy at the

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. He completed a master's degree in philosophy at the

University of Moscow M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and a doctorate in philosophy at the

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in Scotland. He was predominantly concerned with aesthetics, philosophy, history and

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

. In 1975 he translated

Roman Ingarden Roman Witold Ingarden (; February 5, 1893 – June 14, 1970) was a Polish philosopher who worked in aesthetics, ontology, and phenomenology. Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language. During the war, he swi ...

's ''On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism'' from Polish. He also contributed to journals with articles such as "Icelandic Historical Science in the Postwar Period, 1944-1957". 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''. He was the son of

Hannibal Valdimarsson Hannibal Gísli Valdimarsson (13 January 1903 – 1 September 1991) was an Icelandic politician. Parliament He was a member of parliament from 1946 to 1959 for the Social Democratic Party and People's Alliance and then from 1963 to 1974 for th ...

, a former minister, and had several sons and one daughter, Thora Arnorsdottir. He died on 28 December 2012.

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 The Communist Party of Iceland ( is, Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands) was a political party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938. History In the early 1920s a group of young militants of the Social Democratic Party (Iceland), Social Democratic Party (''Al ...

and the Comintern,

Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and s ...

and the Soviet Union)

References

1934 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Icelandic philosophers Epistemologists Arnor Hannibalsson Philosophers of art Arnor Hannibalsson Arnor Hannibalsson Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Moscow State University alumni {{Iceland-bio-stub