Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 - Image 1

Price loading...

Oxford University Press Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920

Name: Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920
Brand: Oxford University Press

History & Schools of Thought

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement called Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until 1920. Author Frederick C. Beiser focuses on its most prominent members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel. Lebensphilosophie appeared at a critical movement in Western culture; it was a response to several important cultural developments of the late 19th century: atheism, relativism, historicism and pessimism. The Lebensphilosophen believed that meaning of life had to be found in life itself and denied the relevance of any transcendent realm of meaning. To affirm the value of life, they reacted against Schopenhauer's pessimism; they proclaimed that the joys of life outweighed its sorrows, and that there is an infinite value in living life to its fullest. They developed a radical individualist ethic, which proclaimed the value of individual self-realization above all other goods. As part of this radical individualism, they disputed the existence of absolute moral values; and by insisting on the historicity of life, they affirmed the relativity of all values. This was the first intellectual movement in the Western tradition to develop an entirely secular and humanist conception of life. Many of its doctrines are familiar to students of Nietzsche; but readers will find that he was only one of an entire intellectual movement.

Key Features

Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870 1920

ABIS BOOK

Language:English

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0192899767
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > History & Schools of Thought
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 April 2023
Listed Since: 29 November 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to Nietzsche - Philosophy Guide

The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy)

The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life

The Nietzschean Mind (Routledge Philosophical Minds)

The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich

Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life

Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit

Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will of Life

Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze

Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy (The History of Continental Philosophy)

Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Early German Positivism

Friedrich Nietzsche and European Nihilism (Nietzsche Now)

The Nietzschean Mind (Routledge Philosophical Minds)

"Gefährliche Liebschaften?" Kant und Nietzsche aus der Perspektive von Schiller, Hesse und Mann: Ein literaturwissenschaftlicher Vergleich

The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays On German Romantic Philosophy

The German Historicist Tradition

Routledge - The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers

The Death of God and the Meaning of Life

The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses, and Legacy

Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)