| Contents |
Introduction : "What's the Seminar Got to Do with the War?" -- the genius of war, the genius of peace : Max Scheler's demons -- Deutschtum und Judentum : Hermann Cohen in the time of the nations -- I and thou : Martin Buber and dialogical creation -- More than life : Georg Simmel's philosophical testament -- The apocalypse of hope : Ernst Bloch's phenomenology of utopic spirit -- The road to Damascus in the age of capitalism : György Lukács and history and class consciousness -- From death into life : Franz Rosenzweig's redemptions -- "A journey around the world" : Ernst Cassirer, freedom in ways of worldmaking -- Martin Heidegger and the titanic struggle over being -- The tragedy of the person : Edmund Husserl at war. |
| Abstract |
"Combining history and biography with astute philosophical analysis, Nicolas de Warren explores and reinterprets the intellectual trajectories of ten German philosophers as they reacted to and experienced the First World War. His book will enhance our understanding of the intimate and invariably complicated relationship between philosophy and war"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-419) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version: Warren, Nicolas de, 1969 German philosophy and the First World War. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781108534628 |
| LCCN | 2022044738 |
| ISBN | 9781108423496 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1108423493 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
