The Destruction of Reason
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781839761867
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781839761843
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Date of Addition:
- 08/31/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Verso
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Enzo Traverso
- Translator:
- Peter Palmer
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