Introduction to Georg Lukacs: Why Democracies are superior to Autocracies? and The real Germany
- Two short typescripts by G. Lukacs from the archive, dating from 1941/42, shed light on his appraisal of the cultural 'inner reserves' of Germany and the 'moral reserves' of the democracies involved in the Second World War, as well as on Lukacs's political philosophy at that time. The conception of an intrinsic interrelation of a humanist philosophical anthropology and rationalist epistemology elucidates his egalitarian and democratic account. Both texts are located within the intellectual development of the author in an introduction by the editor, which sketches the historical background and indicates relevant contemporaneous theoretical and political debates, such as the controversies over realism and humanism and also a dispute with K. Jaspers on German collective guilt.
MetadatenAuthor details: | Konstantin BaehrensGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2015-0019 |
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ISSN: | 0012-1045 |
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ISSN: | 2192-1482 |
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Title of parent work (German): | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung |
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Publisher: | De Gruyter |
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Place of publishing: | Berlin |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | German |
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Year of first publication: | 2015 |
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Publication year: | 2015 |
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Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
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Tag: | German classic; German misery; Jaspers; Lukacs; Marxism; autocracy; collective guilt; democracy; humanism; political philosophy; rationalism |
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Volume: | 63 |
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Issue: | 2 |
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Number of pages: | 9 |
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First page: | 358 |
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Last Page: | 366 |
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Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
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Peer review: | Referiert |
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