Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler's Lifetime

Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and industrial society in the late nineteenth-century. The key figure was Immanuel Kant: seen for a century as the philosophical father of the nation, Kant seemed to lack crucial answers for violent and impersonal modern times. This book shows that the social and intellectual crisis that overturned Germany's traditions a sense of profound spiritual confusion...Read more