Street Life and Morals - German Philosophy in Hitlers Lifetime
Verlag | Reaktion Books |
Format | 16,7 x 2,4 x 23,9 cm |
Gewicht | 518 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781789144949 |
Bestell-Nr | 78914494UA |
a new account of the late 19th-century crisis in German philosophy, when Germany became an urban and industrial societyshows that the social and intellectual crisis that overturned Germanys traditions a sense of profound spiritual confusion over where modern society was headed was the same as allowed Hitler to come to powerdescribes how German philosophers actively struggled to create a new kind of philosophy, in order to make sense of the new social and technological developments
Klappentext:
German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and industrial society in the late nineteenth-century. The key figure was Immanuel Kant: seen for a century as the philosophical father of the nation, Kant seemed to lack crucial answers for violent and impersonal modern times.This book shows that the social and intellectual crisis that overturned Germanys traditions a sense of profound spiritual confusion over where modern society was headed was the same as allowed Hitler to come to power. It also describes how German philosophers actively struggled to create a new kind of philosophy, in order to understand social incoherence and technologys diminishing of the individual.