Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Georg Lukacs makes no bones about calling The Destruction of Reason a polemical book. Completed in 1952, several years after the appearance of Horkheimer's Eclipse of Reason, it reconsiders the disturbing history of German irrationalism with the investigative tools of historical materialism. Displaying a rare breadth of learning and awareness, Lukacs traces the atrocities of Fascism to seeds sown as far back as the older Schelling, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Kierkegaard, though not a German, is discussed at length in view of his exceptional influence on twentieth-century thought. In dealing with pre-World War I philosophy and sociology, Luk�cs speaks from personal acquaintance with leading figures in Germany, notable Georg Simmel and Max Weber. The final chapter, which charts the development of racialist theory from eighteenth-century roots, is followed by a substantial epilogue intended as a warning for our times. Although peculiar historical conditions account for the German susceptibility to irrational trends, no country can be sure of immunity. Despite the tendencies to obscurantism, complacency, despair or cynicism which Luk�cs reveals in his chosen thinkers, he does not seek to deny their constructive achievements. His energetic sorting of the intellectual wheat from the chaff concludes, typically, on a cautious yet hopeful note. with Pietro Nenni, Lukacs recognised in the latter-day international peace movements a first sign that conscious reason in supplanting mass feeling (always open to manipulation) as the guiding light of humanity. Long awaited in English-speaking countries, The Destruction of Reason stands with The Young Hegel as one of its author's cardinal later works, informed throughout with his overriding concern for the future of civilised life. Seller Inventory # 119192

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a brilliant intellectual history of the philosophical positions and movements that in a way fermented to produce National Socialism. Rare erudition, wonderful stylizations, Lukasc is an amazing writer and an amazing mind. Sometimes his Leninist sympathies intrude, but for those interested in what led up to National Socialism in the field of philosophy, this text is amazingly well written and well researched. If you are interested in the history of German philosophy, to the point of being interested in minor thinkers, then this is worth reading. Ultimately, this is a book about Irrationalism, and how its various intellectual versions led to ''Hitlerism''. Read it in tandem with Hitler and Aesthetics . another excellent book (not by GL though). The Epilogue is really interesting . as he predicts that unlike Germany, which was interested in giving philosophical justifications to its irrationalism, the USA would , in confronting the USSR in the Cold War, unabashedly accept and exhibit its irrational interests in raw power. It's everywhere today. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9789350024089

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