The Destruction of Reason by Lukacs, Georg

The Destruction of Reason (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781839761843)

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The Destruction of Reason by Lukacs, Georg

The Destruction of Reason

$49.95
The Destruction of Reason by Lukacs, Georg

The Destruction of Reason

$49.95
Format: Paperback
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How Western philosophy lost its innocence: from Enlightenment to fascism

The Destruction of Reason is Georg Luk當s'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 Luk當s'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.

Author: Georg Lukacs
ISBN-10: 1839761849
ISBN-13: 9781839761843
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 928
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 2.20d
By Georg Lukacs
By Georg Lukacs
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Georg Luk當s (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Enzo Traverso is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications include more than ten authored and edited books, including The Marxists and the Jewish Question, The Jews and Germany, Understanding the Nazi Genocide and The Origins of Nazi Violence.

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