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Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx
Contributor(s): Kouvelakis, Stathis (Author)
ISBN: 178663578X     ISBN-13: 9781786635785
Publisher: Verso
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
- Philosophy | Political
- History | Revolutionary
Dewey: 320.010
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.70 lbs) 480 pages
 
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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 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.