دانلود کتاب German philosophy in the twentieth century : Lukács to Strauss

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: The left
1. Georg Lukács: The hard left
Section I: Art and culture
Section II: History and Class Consciousness
Reification
Alienation from self
Alienation from others
Alienation from things
Is the collapse of capitalism inevitable?
False consciousness and class consciousness
The party
The question of violence
Utopia and the purpose of the revolution
Criticism
Section III: German philosophy and the rise of fascism
The thesis
Schelling
Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Dilthey
Heidegger
2. Ernst Bloch: The utopian left
The project
What is wrong with ‘bourgeois’ society?
Bloch and ‘vulgar Marxism’
The negativity argument
Dreams
The ‘archetype’ of utopia
How to reach utopia
Ideology and natural rights
Criticism
3. Walter Benjamin: The phenomenological left
The aim
Benjamin’s historical method
The dialectical image
Constructing the dialectical image
The arcades
The downside of arcadian life
Aura
The decay of aura
Benjamin’s paradoxical welcome of the decay of aura
Benjamin’s flirtation with totalitarianism
PART II: The Right
4. Oswald Spengler: The pessimistic right
The argument
‘Classical’ versus ‘Western’ culture
Urbanisation as the force behind the rise and fall of cultures
Politics
When did ‘Western’ culture begin?
Kultur versus Volk
On understanding other cultures
Relativism versus ‘eternal truth’
Fatalism?
What can we do now?
5. Max Scheler: The Christian right
Section I: Scheler’s approach to philosophy
The grounding vision: medievalism
Philosophy as phenomenology
Reservations
Section II: Ethics
‘Emotional intuitionism’
Reservations
The hierarchy of values
Persons
Reservations
Section III: Religion
Religion and morality
Reason and revelation
Reservations
Section IV: Social and political thought
Scheler’s war
Reservations
Scheler’s later political thought
Reservations
Section V: The post-Catholic work
Four stages of psychic life
Spirit as the distinguishing principle
Spirit and life
Metaphysics
Worldview philosophy
6. Carl Schmitt: The bellicose right
Political anthropology
The political
Liberalism
Democracy
Dictatorship
Decisionism
International relations
The Westphalian settlement
The collapse of the jus publicum Europaeum
Kant’s reintroduction of the ‘just war’
Objections to the liberal world order
Schmitt’s future
Criticism
7. Leo Strauss: The American right
‘West Coast Straussians’ versus ‘East Coast Straussians’
The crisis
What the ancients had and we have lost
How did we get here from there?
The exoteric and the esoteric
Strauss’s failure to distinguish between the lifeworld and the science world
Strauss’s misunderstanding of Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s ‘historicism’
Strauss’s failure to recognise Heidegger as an ally
Strauss’s so-called defence of liberal democracy
Afterword
Bibliography
Index