Destruction of Reason (eBook)

Georg Lukacs (Autor)

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2021 | Ebook UK & RoW
928 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-83976-185-0 (ISBN)

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A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Luk,cs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed polemic against post-Hegelian German philosophy and sociology from Kierkegaard to Heidegger. The Destruction of Reason is unsparing in its contention that with almost no exceptions, the post-Hegelian tradition prepared the ground fascist thought. In this, the main culprits are Friedrich Nietzsche and Mart,n Heidegger who are accused, in turn, of introducing irrationalism into social and philosophical thought, pronounced antagonism to the idea of progress in history, an aristocratic view of the "e;masses,"e; and, consequently, hostility to socialism, which in its classic expressions are movements for popular democracy-especially, but not exclusively, the expropriation of most private property in terms of material production.The Destruction of Reason remains one of Luk,cs's most controversial, albeit little read, books. This new edition, featuring an historical introduction by Enzo Traverso, will finally see this classic come back in to print.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2021
• Einführung: Enzo Traverso
• Übersetzer: Peter Palmer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: adornian • Adorno • Aesthetics • Critical theory • domenico losurdo • Existentialism • Fascism • German philosophy • Heidegger • History and Class Consciousness • History of Philosophy • idealism • Lenin • Losurdo • Lukacs • Martin Heidegger • Marx • Marxism • Marxist • Marxist Aesthetics • neitzsche • Sartre • Theodor Adorno
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-185-7 / 1839761857
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-185-0 / 9781839761850