My Life in Germany Before and After 1933
Karl Lowith(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published in April 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-485-12109-4 (ISBN)
Description
Written in 1939, while Lowith was in exile in Japan and first published in Germany in 1986, this book is a philosopher's autobiography. It focuses on the years 1914-1939 - 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 - and includes philosophical-biographical vignettes of leading German intellectual figures of the day: the George circle, Oswald Spengler, Karl Barth and Carl Schmitt. At a personal level, the work represents the search by a German-Jewish intellectual for political and cultural identity in the Germany of Weimar and the Third Reich. As an historical document, it provides a valuable account of the whole intellectual and social ambience before and after 1933, and should be of interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, Germanists and all those interested in the problematic history of 20th-century German philosophy. Karl Lowith's other titles include "Meaning and History" (1949), "From Hegel to Nietzsche" (1964), and "Weber and Marx" (1982).
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
22pp plates, illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-485-12109-4 (9780485121094)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1914-33: war and captivity; Nietzsche before and after Hitler; after the war; Oswald Spengler and Karl Barth; in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl; my final meeting with Husserl. 1934-6: the expulsion of the Jews from Italy; a Japanese and a German naivety. 1936-9: German emigrants in Japan; my social contact with Germans in Japan; German events between 1936 and 1939; two aryan emigrants; being a German and a Jew simultaneously. Curriculum vitae (1959); postscript, Ada Lowith.