Philosophy and Revolution

Author: Stathis Kouvelakis

Title: Philosophy and Revolution

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 480

Release Date: 2018-12-04

Details: 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 question of revolutionary politics. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself.

EAN: 9781786635785

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.19 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.57410055068 Pounds, Width: 1.45 Inches