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256 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index. |
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A "Great and Wonderful War" -- The Gemeinschaft and the "Socialism of War" -- The "Ideology of War" outside of Germany -- War and Meditatio Mortis -- Sacrifice, Death, and the Gemeinschaft -- The End of Bourgeois Security -- Obeying Destiny -- War, Community, and Death: Jaspers and Heidegger -- Jaspers and the Kriegsideologie -- Jaspers and the Coming of Nazism -- Jaspers and the Community of the Soil -- Heidegger, Camaraderie, and the Gemeinschaft -- The Philosopher, the "Abyss of Dasein," and "Primal Courage" -- The Freischwebend Intellectual: Heidegger As a Critic of Mannheim -- Value Neutrality and Liberalism: Heidegger As a Critic of Weber -- Sein und Zeit and the Kriegsideologie -- Germans, Europeans, Gypsies, and Papuans -- "Historicity" and the Negation of the Universal Concept of Man -- "Historicity," "Difference," and "Struggle" -- "Spirit" and Subversive Intellectualism -- Detranscendentalization and Deuniversalization of the Subject -- The Cricitism and Reinterpretation of Historicity: Husserl -- "Historicity" and the Autonomy of Theory: Husserl versus Heidegger -- The Western World: The West and the East -- German Historicity and the Unity of the West -- The Outcasts of "Historicity:" Gypsies, Papuans, and Hottentots -- The "Metaphysical People" and the Salvation of the Western World -- War, Revolution, and Conspiracy -- The Bolshevik Revolution and the "Judaic-Bolshevik" Conspiracy -- Jews, Zivilisation, and Revolution -- The Jews and the Community without Soil -- The Western World and Judaism: Jaspers and Heidegger. |
| Summary |
"In Heidegger and the Ideology of War, Domenico Losurdo reconstructs the genesis of Heidegger's philosophy in its historical context, analyzing the characteristics of the peculiar "ideology of war" developed in Germany at the outset of the First World War. In the twentieth century, conflicts between states for the first time took the form of total war, requiring the mobilization of an entire society. On the one hand, among the allied nations, this all-pervasive ideological mobilization centered on the principle of "democratic intervention," the Wilsonian idea of a holy crusade able to subvert the eternally militarist and autocratic Germany and, in this way, favor a kind of great "international democratic revolution." On the other hand, in a spiral of radicalization, the German ideology of war characterized the looming conflict as a great clash between irreconcilable civilizations, faiths, world-visions, and even races. Germans affirmed not only the superiority of their culture, but above all a political and social model that expelled from modernity every universal concept of emancipation and democratization."--Jacket. |
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
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War (Philosophy) -- History -- 20th century.
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 (OCoLC)fst00032385
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War (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01170420
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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1573929107 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781573929103 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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