German Philosophy and the First World War

Nicolas de Warren

ISBN 10: 1108423493 / ISBN 13: 9781108423496

Editore: Cambridge University Press, GB, 2023

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 Lukács, 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. Codice articolo LU-9781108423496

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A powerful exploration of how the First World War - 'the war to end all wars' - transformed German philosophy.

Informazioni sull'autore: Nicolas de Warren is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Husserl and the Promise of Time (Cambridge University Press, 2010), A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time (2018), and Original Forgiveness (2020).

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Titolo: German Philosophy and the First World War
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, GB
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Hardback
Condizione: New