100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War Crisis and Reconfigurations

100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War Crisis and Reconfigurations / edited by Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs, Jack Reynolds.

This book is a collection of specifically commissioned articles on the key continental European philosophical movements since 1914. It shows how each of these bodies of thought has been shaped by their responses to the horrors set in train by World War I, and considers whether we are yet ‘post-post-...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sharpe, Matthew (Editor), Jeffs, Rory (Editor), Reynolds, Jack (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 25
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Subjects:
Philosophy.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: European thought, after the Deluge; Rory Jeffs and Matthew Sharpe
  • Part I: Singin’ in the Shade?
  • 1. Singin’ in the Shade: An Introduction to Post-Post-War Thought; William H. F. Altman
  • 2. Nationality, State and Global Constitutionalism in Hermann Cohen’s Wartime Writings; Miguel Vatter
  • Part II: Weimar and its shadows
  • 3. The Sons destined to Murder their Father: Crisis in Interwar Germany; Petra Brown
  • 4. The Spengler Connection: Total Critiques of Reason and The Decline of the West; Julian Potter
  • 5. The Significance of World War One in Jan Patočka’s Philosophy; Daniel Brennan
  • Part III: Intellectual movements
  • 6. A New Vision of How the Great War Influenced Freud’s Psychoanalysis; Talia Morag
  • 7. The Long Shadow of Leninist Politics: Radical Strategy and Revolutionary Warfare after a Century; Geoff Boucher
  • 8. Hegel in Dark Times: The Resurrections of Geist from the Ashes of War; Rory Jeffs
  • 9. The Spectre of Collectivism: Neoliberalism, the Wars, and Historical Revisionism; Damien Cahill
  • Part IV: Academic philosophy in a time of wars
  • 10. The divide between philosophy and enthusiasm: The Effect of the World Wars on Relations between British and Continental Philosophies; Sherah Bloor
  • 11. Philosophy and/or politics? Two trajectories of philosophy after the Great War and their contamination; Jack Reynolds
  • Part V: After the wars have ended?
  • 12. Modernity, civilisation, culture and the ‘War to end all Wars’: Or we begin and end in the mess; John Rundell
  • 13. 1750, casualty of 1914? Lest we forget (The preKantian enlightenment); Matthew Sharpe
  • List of Contributors. .

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