The Destruction of Reason
By Georg Lukács, Enzo Traverso and Peter Palmer
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukács’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 Lukács’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.
Georg Lukács
Georg Luk�cs (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.
Read more from Georg Lukács
Aesthetics and Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Destruction of Reason Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Soul and Form Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTactics and Ethics: 1919–1929 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTactics and Ethics: 1919-1929 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Destruction of Reason
Related ebooks
Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Months in Soviet Russia (1921) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Prussianism and Socialism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEarthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Day After the Revolution: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ego and His Own: The Case Of the Individual Against Authority Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Communist Manifesto / The April Theses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reform or Revolution and Other Writings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWeimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRedemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fortunes of Liberalism: Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Communist Manifesto (with an Introduction by Algernon Lee) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War: Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Philosophy For You
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Four Loves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Loving Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Buddha's Guide to Gratitude: The Life-changing Power of Everyday Mindfulness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5History of Western Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: A New Translation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Plato's Republic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Questions for Deep Thinkers: 200+ of the Most Challenging Questions You (Probably) Never Thought to Ask Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Reviews for The Destruction of Reason
4 ratings0 reviews