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Author Löwith, Karl, 1897-1973.

Title From Hegel to Nietzsche : the revolution in nineteenth century thought / Karl Löwith ; translated from German by David E. Green.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, ©1991.

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Description xviii, 558 pages : illustrations
Note Translation of: Von Hegel zu Nietzsche.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1964.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Studies in the history of the German spirit during the nineteenth century : Introduction : Goethe and Hegel : Goethe's idea of primary phenomena and Hegel's comprehension of the absolute ; Rose and cross -- The origin of the spiritual development of the age in Hegel's philosophy of the history of the spirit : I. The eschatological meaning of Hegel's consummation of the history of the world and the spirit : The Eschatological design of world history ; The eschatological nature of the absolute forms of the spirit ; Hegel's reconciliation of philosophy with the state and the Christian religion -- II. Old Hegelians, young Hegelians, neo-Hegelians : The preservation of Hegelian philosophy by the old Hegelians ; The overthrow of Hegelian philosophy by the young Hegelians ; The refurbishing of Hegelian philosophy by the neo-Hegelians -- III. The dissolution of Hegel's mediations in the exclusive choices of Marx and Kierkegaard : The general criticism of Hegel's notion of reality ; The critical distinctions of Marx and Kierkegaard ; Criticism of the capitalistic world and secular Christianity ; Estrangement as the source of Hegel's reconciliation -- The philosophy of history becomes the desire for eternity : IV. Nietzsche as philosopher of our age and eternity : Nietzsche's evaluation of Goethe and Hegel ; Nietzsche's relationship to Hegelism of the forties ; Nietzsche's attempt to surmount nihilism -- V. The spirit of the age and the question of eternity : The spirit of the ages becomes the spirit o of the age ; Time and history for Hegel and Goethe -- Part II. Studies in the history of the Bourgeois-Christian world : The problem of bourgeois society : Rousseau: bourgeois and Citoyen ; Hegel: bourgeois society and absolute state ; Marx: bourgeoisie and proletariat ; Stirner: the individual "I" as the common ground of bourgeois and proletarian man ; Kierkegaard: the bourgeois-Christian self ; Donoso Cortes and Proudhon: Christian dictatorship from above and atheistic reordering of society from below ; A. De Tocqueville: the development of bourgeois democracy into democratic despotism ; G. Sorel: the nonbourgeois democracy of the working class ; Nietzsche: the human herd and its leader.
III. The problem of education : Hegel's political humanism ; The young Hegelians ; J. Burckhardt on the century of education and G. Flaubert on the contradictions of knowledge ; Nietzsche's criticism of education, present and past -- The problem of man : Hegel: absolute spirit as the universal essence of man ; Feuerbach: corporeal man as the ultimate essence of man ; Marx: the proletariat as the possibility of collective man ; Stirner: the individual "I" as the proprietor of man ; Kierkegaard: the solitary self as absolute humanity ; Nietzsche: The superman as the transcendence of man -- The problem of Christianity: Hegel's transcending of religion by philosophy ; Strauss's reduction of Christianity to myth ; Feuerbach's reduction of the Christian to the nature of man ; Ruge's replacement of Christianity by humanity ; Bauer's destruction of theology and Christianity ; Marx's explanation of Christianity as a perverted world ; Stirner's systematic destruction of the divine and the human ; Kierkegaard's paradoxical concept of faith and his attack upon existing Christendom ; Nietzsche's criticism of Christian morality and civilization ; Legarde's political criticism of ecclesiastical Christianity ; Overbeck's historical analysis of primitive and passing Christianity -- Translations of works mentioned in Löwith's From Hegel to Nietzsche -- Chronology.
Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Sociology.
Religious thought -- 19th century.
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena. (DNLM)D007227
Infant, Newborn -- metabolism. (DNLM)D007231Q000378
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. (OCoLC)fst00031816
Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071
Religious thought. (OCoLC)fst01094322
Sociology. (OCoLC)fst01123875
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Filosofie.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Added Title Von Hegel zu Nietzsche. English
ISBN 0231074980 (alk. paper)
9780231074988 (alk. paper)
0231074999 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780231074995 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0815142153
9780815142157
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