German Philosophy and the First World War
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German Philosophy and the First World War

  1. 436 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

German Philosophy and the First World War

About this book

How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with astute philosophical and textual analysis, Nicolas de Warren addresses here the intellectual trajectories of ten significant wartime philosophers: Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Cohen, György Lukåcs, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Franz Rosenzweig, Max Scheler and Georg Simmel. In exploring their individual works written during and after the War, the author reveals how philosophical concepts and new forms of thinking were forged in response to this unprecedented catastrophe. In reassessing standardized narratives of German thought, the book deepens and enhances our understanding of the intimate and complex relationship between philosophy and violence by demonstrating how the 1914-18 conflict was a crucible for ways of thinking that still define us today.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781108534628
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: “What’s the Seminar Got to Do with the War?”
  9. Chapter 1 The Genius of War, the Genius of Peace: Max Scheler’s Demons
  10. Chapter 2 Deutschtum und Judentum: Hermann Cohen in the Time of the Nations
  11. Chapter 3 I and Thou: Martin Buber and Dialogical Creation
  12. Chapter 4 More than Life: Georg Simmel’s Philosophical Testament
  13. Chapter 5 The Apocalypse of Hope: Ernst Bloch’s Phenomenology of Utopic Spirit
  14. Chapter 6 The Road to Damascus in the Age of Capitalism: György Lukåcs and History and Class Consciousness
  15. Chapter 7 From Death into Life: Franz Rosenzweig’s Redemptions
  16. Chapter 8 “A Journey around the World”: Ernst Cassirer, Freedom in Ways of Worldmaking
  17. Chapter 9 Martin Heidegger and the Titanic Struggle over Being
  18. Chapter 10 The Tragedy of the Person: Edmund Husserl at War
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index

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