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Author Segev, Alon

Title Thinking and killing : philosophical discourse in the shadow of the Third Reich / Alon Segev
Published Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
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Contents Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Martin Heidegger on Humanism -- Chapter Two. Carl Schmitt on God, Law, and the Führer -- Chapter Three. Ernst Jünger on War for the sake of War -- Chapter Four. Karl Löwith on Sense of Humor and Departure from the German Masters -- Chapter Five. Hannah Arendt on Banality -- Chapter Six. Hans-Georg Gadamer on the Phenomenological Disinfection of Language -- Chapter Seven. Jean Améry on Phenomenology in the Death Camp -- Chapter Eight. Jan Assmann on Moses and Violence -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-98)
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects
Mass murder.
National socialism and philosophy.
Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
History of Western philosophy.
Humanities.
Philosophy.
Western philosophy, from c 1900.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Ethics
Mass murder
National socialism and philosophy
Philosophy, German
Politieke filosofie.
Nationaal-socialisme.
Duitsland.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019667581
ISBN 1614511012
9781614511014
9781306091527
1306091527
1614511020
9781614511021