Street Life and Morals

German Philosophy in Hitler's Lifetime

Street Life and Morals
Lesley Chamberlain
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Hardback
h235 x 159mm - 356pg
11 Oct 2021 UK
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9781789144949
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With resonance for today, this book explores a significant crisis of German philosophy and national identity in the decades around World War II. 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 of this shift 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 crisis that allowed Hitler to come to power. It also describes how German philosophers actively struggled to create a new kind of philosophy in an effort to understand social incoherence and technology' s diminishing of the individual.
A novelist and historian of ideas, Lesley Chamberlain was educated in England in German literature and philosophy. Her books include the acclaimed Nietzsche in Turin, The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud, and Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution, the last also published by Reaktion Books. She lives in London.
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ISBN-13: 9781789144949
Published: 11 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Pages: 356

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