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(3.25) | None | How Western philosophy lost its innocence: from Enlightenment to fascism 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.… (more) |
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Questo libro non pretende affatto di essere una storia della filosofia reazionaria o addirittura un trattato sul suo sviluppo. L'autore sa bene che l'irrazionalismo, di cui qui viene presentato l'affermarsi e l'estendersi a indirizzo dominante della filosofia borghese, è solo una delle tendenze importanti della filosofia reazionaria borghese. Benché non vi sia praticamente filosofia reazionaria che non celi un determinato elemento irrazionalistico, il campo della filosofia reazionaria borghese è molto più ampio di quanto non sia quello della filosofia irrazionalistica, nel senso proprio e rigoroso del termine.  | |
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Le masse, combattendo per la ragione, hanno proclamto sulla strada il loro diritto alla condeterminazione del destino del mondo. Esse non rinunceranno più a questo diritto, all'uso della ragione nella loro propria causa, nella causa dell'umanità, al diritto di vivere in un mondo retto dalla ragione e non nel caos della follia guerresca. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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None ▾Book descriptions How Western philosophy lost its innocence: from Enlightenment to fascism 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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