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Thinking and Killing: Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich
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Abstract This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by eight German thinkers from the Continental tradition. These eight intellectuals i... view more
This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by eight German thinkers from the Continental tradition. These eight intellectuals include Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Jean Améry, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jan Assmann. Based on careful philosophical examinations of both known and unknown texts of these eight thinkers (including an English translation of two forgotten texts by Schmitt and Jünger), this study exposes and then explores the tension between ideology and philosophy, between submission to authority and genuine critical thinking, all of which constitute the essence of the Continental philosophical tradition.... view less
Keywords
Third Reich; Nazism; antisemitism; persecution of Jews; genocide; Jünger, E.; Arendt, H.; Gadamer, H.; Heidegger, M.; philosophy; Judaism
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Adolf Eichmann; Karl Löwith
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Publisher
De Gruyter
City
Boston
Page/Pages
VII, 104 p.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511014
ISBN
978-1-61451-101-4
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications