Written in 1939, while Lowith was in exile in Japan and first published in Germany in 1986, this book is a philosopher's autobiography. It focuses on the years 1914-1939 - a crucial period in the growth of Hitler's Germany. It covers Lowith's youth in Germany, his emigration to Italy and from there to Japan, and his meeting with Martin Heidegger in Rome in 1936 - and includes philosophical-biographical vignettes of leading German intellectual figures of the day: the George circle, Oswald Spengler, Karl Barth and Carl ...
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Written in 1939, while Lowith was in exile in Japan and first published in Germany in 1986, this book is a philosopher's autobiography. It focuses on the years 1914-1939 - a crucial period in the growth of Hitler's Germany. It covers Lowith's youth in Germany, his emigration to Italy and from there to Japan, and his meeting with Martin Heidegger in Rome in 1936 - and includes philosophical-biographical vignettes of leading German intellectual figures of the day: the George circle, Oswald Spengler, Karl Barth and Carl Schmitt. At a personal level, the work represents the search by a German-Jewish intellectual for political and cultural identity in the Germany of Weimar and the Third Reich. As an historical document, it provides a valuable account of the whole intellectual and social ambience before and after 1933, and should be of interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, Germanists and all those interested in the problematic history of 20th-century German philosophy. Karl Lowith's other titles include "Meaning and History" (1949), "From Hegel to Nietzsche" (1964), and "Weber and Marx" (1982).
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Publisher:
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published:
PUB 1994
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17333977560
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NEAR FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH KING / KARL LOWITH WAS PART OF THE HEIDEGERIAN CIRCLE IN HUSSERL'S FREIBURG PRIOR TO 1933. OTHER THAN FOXING TO THE EDGES OF THE TEXT BLOCK THE BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. AN INSIGHTFULL ACCOUNT OF THE PROCESS OF THE CREATION A STATELESS PERSON OUT OF AN ASSIMILATED GERMAN JEW BY NAZI RULE AND THE HUMAN IMPACT ON GERMAN JEWERY.
