My life in Germany before and after 1933 : a report

"Written in 1939 while the philosopher Karl Lowith was in exile in Japan, and first published in Germany in 1986, this autobiography focuses on the years 1914-39, a crucial period in the growth of Hitler's Germany. It covers Lowith's youth in Germany, his emigration to Italy and from there to Japan, and his meeting with Martin Heidegger in Rome in 1936. Included are philosophical-biographical vignettes of leading German intellectual figures of the day: the George circle, Oswald Spengler, Karl Barth, and Carl Schmitt." "My Life in Germany Before and After 1933 represents the search by a German-Jewish intellectual for political and cultural identity in the Germany of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. It provides a valuable account of the intellectual and social ambience before and after 1933 and will be of value to philosophers, intellectual historians, and those interested in German history."--BOOK JACKET I. 1914-33 -- War And Captivity -- Nietzsche Before And After Hitler -- Austrians, Germans And Italians -- The Reception Back Home -- The 'front Clause' -- After The War -- Two German Men -- My First Friendship After The War -- The Circle Around Stefan George And The Ideology Of National Socialism -- Oswald Spengler And Karl Barth -- In Freiburg With Edmund Husserl -- Martin Heidegger's Philosophy Of Time (1919-36) -- Heidegger's Translation Of 'one's Ownmost -- Individual Dasein' Into The 'german Dasein' -- Heidegger's Personality -- Dr B.'s 'awakening' In Reverse -- The Spirit And Christianity Are An Anachronism In Germany -- B.'s Position On The Jewish Question -- My Final Meeting With Husserl In Freiburg In 1933 And With Heidegger In Rome In 1936 -- My Friends From The Freiburg Student Period -- The Withering Away Of All Existing Things Through Inflation -- As A Private Tutor In Mecklenburg -- The Escape From The Times To Italy -- Return To Marburg And My Habilitation --^ The Seventieth Birthday And Death Of My Father -- Three Portents Of The Revolution -- Before The Nazi Takeover -- The German 'uprising' Of 1933 And My Final Lecture In Marburg -- Ii. 1934-36 -- My Departure From Marburg -- Italians And Germans -- National Socialist Professors In Rome -- Two German Institute Directors -- German Emigrants In Rome -- Russian Emigrants In Italy And Japan -- The Expulsion Of The Jews From Italy -- A Japanese And A German Naivety -- Jewish And Aryan Fates At Marburg University -- The Echo Of German Events In Italy -- The Prague Congress Of Philosophy (1934) -- The Revocation Of My Teaching Licence And My Journey To Germany -- The Return To Italy Via Paris -- Travelling By Air To Istanbul -- The Offer Of An Appointment In Japan,and Farewell To Germany And Europe -- Trouble With Publishers -- Iii. 1936-39 -- Arrival In Japan -- An English Colleague -- The Italian Excellency And A German Privy Councillor In Sendai -- German Emigrants In Japan --^ National Socialism In Karuizawa -- My Social Contact With Germans In Japan German Events Between 1936 And 1939 -- Two Aryan Emigrants -- How The Separation Between Germans And Jews Began For Me -- Being A German And A Jew Simultaneously -- The German Simplification And German Protest Karl Löwith ; Translated By Elizabeth King. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [148]-156) And Index. A philosopher's autobiography focusing on the years 1914-1939 - a period marking the growth of Hitler's Germany. The book covers Lowith's youth in Germany, his emigration to Italy and then to Japan, and his meeting with Martin Heidegger in Rome in 1936. My Life in Germany Before and After 1933 Contents Foreword Translator’s Note on the Abbreviation of Nantes Introduction 1914-33 1934-36 1936-39 Epilogue Another Epilogue Notes Curriculum Vitae (1959) Postscript Index