From Hegel To Nietzsche: The Revolution In Nineteenth-Century Thought
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Edition: 1st eng ed.,
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
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At the turbulent crossroads of modernity and tradition stands one of the most consequential intellectual ruptures in Western history — the dramatic collapse of the Hegelian world-view and the radical philosophical revolt that followed in its wake. Karl Löwith's landmark work chronicles the revolutionary transformation of nineteenth-century European thought, tracing the ideological fracture that began with Hegel's grand system of absolute idealism and culminated in the devastating, iconoclastic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. With meticulous scholarly precision, Löwith maps the intellectual terrain traversed by the Young Hegelians — including Marx, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Strauss — illustrating how each thinker inherited, contested, and ultimately dismantled the philosophical inheritance bequeathed to them. Löwith argues with compelling authority that this period represents nothing less than the dissolution of the classical Christian-bourgeois world and the birth of a radically secular, crisis-laden modernity. His prose is dense yet luminous, synthesising the history of philosophy with the history of ideas in a manner that remains unmatched in twentieth-century scholarship. Translated from the German by David E. Green, this edition makes Löwith's magisterial vision accessible to the English-speaking world — leaving the reader to confront an unsettling question: if Nietzsche is the logical conclusion of the post-Hegelian revolt, what, if anything, remains?
Author: Karl Löwith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Constable
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 1st eng ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj
At the turbulent crossroads of modernity and tradition stands one of the most consequential intellectual ruptures in Western history — the dramatic collapse of the Hegelian world-view and the radical philosophical revolt that followed in its wake. Karl Löwith's landmark work chronicles the revolutionary transformation of nineteenth-century European thought, tracing the ideological fracture that began with Hegel's grand system of absolute idealism and culminated in the devastating, iconoclastic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. With meticulous scholarly precision, Löwith maps the intellectual terrain traversed by the Young Hegelians — including Marx, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Strauss — illustrating how each thinker inherited, contested, and ultimately dismantled the philosophical inheritance bequeathed to them. Löwith argues with compelling authority that this period represents nothing less than the dissolution of the classical Christian-bourgeois world and the birth of a radically secular, crisis-laden modernity. His prose is dense yet luminous, synthesising the history of philosophy with the history of ideas in a manner that remains unmatched in twentieth-century scholarship. Translated from the German by David E. Green, this edition makes Löwith's magisterial vision accessible to the English-speaking world — leaving the reader to confront an unsettling question: if Nietzsche is the logical conclusion of the post-Hegelian revolt, what, if anything, remains?