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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.

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Author details:Konstantin BaehrensGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2015-0019
ISSN:0012-1045
ISSN:2192-1482
Title of parent work (German):Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung
Publisher:De Gruyter
Place of publishing:Berlin
Publication type:Article
Language:German
Year of first publication:2015
Publication year:2015
Release date:2017/03/27
Tag:German classic; German misery; Jaspers; Lukacs; Marxism; autocracy; collective guilt; democracy; humanism; political philosophy; rationalism
Volume:63
Issue:2
Number of pages:9
First page:358
Last Page:366
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut
Peer review:Referiert
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