The destruction of reason / Georg Lukács ; introduced by Enzo Traverso ; translated by Peter Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukács, György, 1885-1971, author.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Traverso, Enzo, writer of introduction.

Palmer, Peter, translator.

Standardized Title:

Ész trónfosztása. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German.

Irrationalism (Philosophy).

Sociology--Germany--History.

Sociology.

Germany.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

lix, 865 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2021.

Language Note:

Translation of: Az ész trónfosztása.

Summary:

"The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukács's trenchant criticism of certain strands of philosophy after Marx and the role they played in the rise of National Socialism: 'Germany's path to Hitler in the sphere of philosophy,' as he put it. Starting with the revolutions of 1848, his analysis spans post-Hegelian philosophy and sociology. The great pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer, neo-Hegelians such as Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm Dilthey, and the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, and Jean-Paul Sartre come in for a share of criticism, but the principal targets are Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. Through these thinkers he shows in an unsparing analysis that, with almost no exceptions, the post-Hegelian tradition prepared the ground for fascist thought. Originally published in 1952, the book has been unjustly overlooked despite its centrality in Lukács's work and its being one of the key texts in Western Marxism. This new edition features a historical introduction by Enzo Traverso, addressing the current rise of the far right across the world today." --Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. I On some characteristics of Germany's historical development

ch. II The founding of irrationalism in the period between two revolutions (1789-1848)

1. Basic Preliminary Remarks on the History of Modern Irrationalism

2. Schelling's `Intellectual Intuition' as the First Manifestation of Irrationalism

3. Schelling's Later Philosophy

4. Schopenhauer

5. Kierkegaard

ch. III Nietzsche as founder of irrationalism in the imperialist period

ch. IV Vitalism (Lebensphilosophie) in imperialist Germany

1. Essence and Function of Vitalism

2. Dilthey as Founder of Imperialistic Vitalism

3. Vitalism in the Pre-War Period (Simmel)

4. War and Post-War Period (Spengler)

5. The Vitalistic Philosophy of `Relative Stabilization' (Scheler)

6. The Ash Wednesday of Parasitical Subjectivism (Heidegger, Jaspers)

7. Pre-Fascist and Fascist Vitalism (Klages, Junger, Baeumler, Boehm, Krieck, Rosenberg)

ch. V Neo-Hegelianism

ch. VI German sociology of the imperialist period

1. The Origins of Sociology

2. The Beginnings of German Sociology (Schmoller, Wagner and Others)

3. Ferdinand Toennies and the Founding of the New School of German Sociology

4. German Sociology in the Wilhelmine Age (Max Weber)

5. The Defencelessness of Liberal Sociology (Alfred Weber, Mannheim)

6. Pre-Fascist and Fascist Sociology (Spann, Freyer, Carl Schmitt)

ch. VII Social Darwinism, racial theory and fascism

1. Beginnings of Racial Theory in the Eighteenth Century

2. Gobineau's Racial Theory Argument

3. Social Darwinism (Gumplowicz, Ratzenhofer, Woltmann)

4. H.S. Chamberlain as the Founder of Modern Racialism

5. The `National-Socialist Philosophy' as the Demagogic Synthesis of German Imperialist Philosophy.

Notes:

First published in German by Herman Luchterhand, 1962.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1839761849

9781839761843

OCLC:

1160024443

Publisher Number:

99988677954