Not yet the twilight : an autobiography 1945-1964 / Josef Pieper ; translated by Dan Farrelly ; translated by Una Farrelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997.

Standardized Title:

Noch nicht aller Tage Abend. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997.

Pieper, Josef.

Philosophers--Germany--Biography.

Philosophers.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2015]

Summary:

"Volume 2 of Josef Pieper's three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The volume represents not just a simple continuation of a seamless story. The first volume dealt with Pieper's life from his birth in 1904 to the time of World War 2. The current volume deals with the post-war years, 1945-1964, offering a personal documentation of the institutional rubble through which an emerging academic and philosopher had to find his way. This included finding work, re-establishing himself in the family home, completing his academic education, and beginning to teach philosophy in a climate of despair and disillusionment. In this context, the quintessential Pieper emerges. His positive philosophy of being, firmly based on Plato and Thomas Aquinas, finds extraordinary resonance with students, who flock to his lectures in surprising numbers -- seeking and finding a positive way forward. His dedication to training teachers sees him declining higher academic posts in Germany in favor of work which, though less lucrative and more obscure, he considered more fruitful. These years are also marked by his fiercely independent stance over against the Catholic hierarchy -- despite his staunch adherence to the tradition values of Christianity. His popularity as a philosopher and teacher quickly spread to America, where he was invited to teach at famous universities. His fame led to further travels -- to Switzerland, England, France, Spain, India, China, Saigon, and Thailand. Such travels enriched his thinking and nourished the open-mindedness of the Western philosopher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Starting work in the Zero hour

Habilitation, an undertaking with many obstacles

"Poetry evenings" in Essen -Students' passionate willingness to learn

Drudgery of survival 1

II New Colleagues and the return of old friends

Ecumenical workgroup

An odd private lecturer

Contact with the occupying forces and English friendships

Leisure and Ritual 18

III The gate to the world opens up: Trip to Switzerland Richard Seewald and Eckart Peterich

First invitation to the USA: Waldemar Gurian

State of emergency in Germany and Currency reform 38

IV "End of time"

Conversation with T.S. Eliot

One allegedly destroyed, and one really destroyed city: London and Berlin

The "Free University"

Reunion with Peter Suhrkamp 47

V Old-fashioned flight over the Atlantic

The man whom I should make a note of: J.F. Kennedy

Suspect negativa -A Russian in America

The "great books"

Late news about my father 75

VI "Colleague" of Gerhard Marcks

An unnoticed listener: Teilhard de Chardin

Jean Daniélou: an intellectual and a cardinal

What does it mean to have been in Chartres?

Spain and death 101

VII Joyless start to a trip to Canada

Strange Rendez-vous

Karl Stern and the "fire pillars"

Frightening instruction in the "America" lesson 113

VIII An abruptly ended conversation

Dismissal from the political reservation

The "German Committee" - on lost post- virgin territory: television 123

IX Trips to France

The posthumous adventures of Thomas Aquinas

What does "Montmartre" mean?

The Paris of Saints

"The last person on the scaffold"

Saint Antony: a prayer or magic? 143

X Suarez Lecture in New York

Interview in Chicago: Boxing match and race issue

Stanford: '"Western tradition"

Chinese peculiarities

Farewell evening with Alma Mahler-Werfel 154

XI "Research working group"

Call to Munich

The "little wall"

Culture Minister Werner Schütz

The Spanish guardian angel

Dieter Sattler

Stanford for the second time

Las Vegas and Hawaii 173

XII Mexico: what is different?

Cock fights and macabre play with death

The trauma of Spain

Aztec and Mayan Monuments

Farewell to mother 200

XIII India's first word: Esso

Divination in Bombay

Basic/fundamental lesson with Pierre Fallon

In the Kali Temple of Calcutta

Contemplation in Tibetan refugee camp

The Durga Festival 210

XIV Hyderabad: A Thousand and One Nights

Nightly- Festival in Madras

Old Indian dance

Atheistic Buddhism?

Nepal and the "living Goddess" - Death in Benares

Indescribable Taj Mahal 233

XV What is a University?

My reader John XXIII

The "Year of the Dead" begins

Departure to East Asia

"Where is Gloria?"

Japan and the Nô play- "Face to face with my enemy"

Saigon: All Souls 1963

Wonderful Thailand

The return home of my 259.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781587315756

1587315750

9781587315763

1587315769

OCLC:

908990105