{"product_id":"german-philosophy-in-the-twentieth-century-3","title":"German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe path taken by German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought, by turns radical and conservative and secular and religious. In this outstanding introduction,\u003ci\u003e German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneth—\u003c\/i\u003ethe third and final volume in his trilogy—Julian Young examines the work of eight German philosophers and theologians of the period. He discusses their engagement with the deepest existential questions, their critique of the rationalization and mechanization of modernity, and their commitment to varying forms of liberalism, socialism, and democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung introduces and assesses the thought of the following figures: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilhelm Dilthey: the need for ‘worldviews’, and the distinction between ‘explanation’ and ‘understanding’ as a bulwark against the reduction of human beings to scientific quanta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarl Jaspers: existentialism, the challenge of nihilism, and the turn to theology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdith Stein: the phenomenology of empathy, community versus society, and the turn to Catholicism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Tillich: philosophical theology and the ‘theonomous’ life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartin Buber: recovering the ‘thou’ in the face of modernity’s reduction of everything to an ‘it’; the kibbutz as the paradigm of a socialist community\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHans Jonas: the mortal threat posed by the unknown consequences of modern technology and the ethics of responsibility for the planet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErich Fromm: the ‘art of loving’ as a bulwark against hard and soft totalitarianism; the replacement of capitalism by communitarian socialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAxel Honneth: contemporary Hegelianism and the ethics and politics of recognition; the nature of real freedom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucidly and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003eGerman Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneth\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for students of German philosophy, phenomenology, and theology and will also be of interest to students in related fields such as literature, political theory, and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Weber to Heidegger (2018) and \u003ci\u003eGerman Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Lukács to Strauss\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) are also available from Routledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238101635416,"sku":"9781032246208","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032246208.jpg?v=1777555832","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/german-philosophy-in-the-twentieth-century-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}