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Philosophy and revolution: from Kant to Marx

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Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience.In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those socialists—among them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels—who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations, bypassing the...
Request Code : ZLIBIO2577147
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Year:
2018
Edition:
2. ed
Publisher:
Verso Books
Language:
English
Pages:
466
ISBN 10:
178663578X
ISBN 13:
9781786635808
ISBN:
9781786635785,9781786635792,9781786635808,178663578X

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