Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler's Lifetime

Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler's Lifetime

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Author: Lesley Chamberlain

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 356


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 Germany's 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 technology's diminishing of the individual.
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Michael Aaron
Insights into Weimar era German philosophers and thinkers

Lesley Chamberlain has written a wonderful book about how German Philosophy and other German thinkers during the lifetime of A Hitler confronted the challenges of society, technology and the source of reason. She explains why these 3 factors confronted the Kantian worldview that was the then foundation of German Philosophy, albeit modified by the Idealists. She tells a unified story from the Neo Kantians and Husserl, through Cassirer and Heidegger to Adorno and Horkheimer, culminating in Hannah Arendt. !st Class.

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Author: Lesley Chamberlain

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 356


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 Germany's 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 technology's diminishing of the individual.