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Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural cri...
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Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era. 'Ludwig Klages is long overdue for a critical study. Exceedingly brilliant, highly original, and always unconventional, he has been called 'the most fashionable philosopher of his age.' Klages straddled cultural and intellectual worlds from the pre-World War I Munich boheme, to the Nazi elite, influencing virtually everyone of note from Simmel to Adorno. Nitzan Lebovic's singular achievement is to map the career of this extraordinary figure without losing sight of his paradoxes and labyrinthine itinerary.' - Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University, USA 'Nitzan Lebovic's study of Ludwig Klages' 'Life philosophy' is a major contribution to the history of contemporary German thought and to one of the essential components of Nazi ideology.' - Saul Friedlander, Distinguished Professor of History (emeritus), University of California-Los Angeles, USA 'Nitzan Lebovic's Philosophy of Life and Death is really four books in one: easily the best study available of the life and work of Ludwig Klages; a discerning analysis of the rhetoric and appeal of Lebensphilosophie; a provocative argument about the conjunction between this historical moment in the genealogy of biopolitics and current discussions of the topic under very different political signs; and an analysis of a key episode in the history of the peculiar intimate enmity between certain radical left and right thinkers in Europe's twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It's an important book on all four counts.' - John McCole, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137342058, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 320 p. : 7 b&w, ill. |
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9781137342058 9781137342065 : 1137342064 : |
| CLC: | B516.54 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Where It All Began 1. From the Beginning of Life to the End of the World 2. Living Experience, Expression, and Immediacy between 1895 and 1915 3. Ecstasy and Antihistoricism: Klages, Benjamin, Baeumler, 1914-1926 4. Alternative Subject: Anti-Freudianism and Charakterologie, 1919-1929 5. Lebensphilosophie: Conservative Revolution and the Cult of Life 6. Lebensphilosophie and Biopolitics: A Discourse of Biological Forms. |