100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War: Crisis and Reconfigurations (Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture Book 25)

This book is a collection of specifically commissioned articles on the key continental European philosophical movements since 1914. It shows how each of these bodies of thought has been shaped by their responses to the horrors set in train by World War I, and considers whether we are yet ‘post-post-war’. The outbreak of World War I in August 1914,set in chain a series of crises and re-configurations, which have continued to shape the world for a century: industrialized slaughter, the end of colonialism and European empires, the rise of the USA, economic crises, fascism, Soviet Marxism, the gulags and the __Shoah__. Nearly all of the major movements in European thinking (phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Hegelianism, Marxism, political theology, critical theory and neoliberalism) were forged in, or shaped by, attempts to come to terms with the global trauma of the World Wars. This is the first book to describe the development of these movements after World War I, and as such promises to be of interest to philosophers and historians of philosophy around the world. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: European Thought, After the Deluge....Pages 1-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Singin’ in the Shade: An Introduction to Post-Post-War Thought....Pages 27-41 Nationality, State and Global Constitutionalism in Hermann Cohen’s Wartime Writings....Pages 43-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 The Sons Destined to Murder Their Father: Crisis in Interwar Germany....Pages 67-82 The Spengler Connection: Total Critiques of Reason After the Great War....Pages 83-104 The Significance of World War I in Jan Patočka’s Philosophy....Pages 105-116 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 The Challenges of the Great War to Freud’s Psychoanalysis....Pages 119-139 The Long Shadow of Leninist Politics: Radical Strategy and Revolutionary Warfare After a Century....Pages 141-159 Hegel in Dark Times: The Resurrections of Geist from the Ashes of War....Pages 161-182 The Spectre of Collectivism: Neoliberalism, the Wars, and Historical Revisionism....Pages 183-197 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 The Divide Between Philosophy and Enthusiasm: The Effect of the World Wars on British Attitudes Towards Continental Philosophies....Pages 201-213 Philosophy and/or Politics? Two Trajectories of Philosophy After the Great War and Their Contamination....Pages 215-232 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Modernity, Civilisation, Culture and ‘The War to End All Wars’: Or We Begin and End in the Mess....Pages 235-250 1750, Casualty of 1914: Lest We Forget (The PreKantian Enlightenment)....Pages 251-276