Bibliograph

German philosophy and the First World War, Nicolas de Warren, Pennsylvania State University

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German philosophy and the First World War, Nicolas de Warren, Pennsylvania State University

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

German philosophy and the First World War

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1375495795

Responsibility statement

Nicolas de Warren, Pennsylvania State University

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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