From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought.

Translated from the German by David E. Green. First UK edition. 8vo. xiii, 464, [2] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; light shelf wear to extremities of jacket, notwithstanding an excellent copy). London, Constable.

A history of German thought that charts the nineteenth century philosophical trajectory from the cosmic synthesis of Hegel's metaphysical worldview to Nietzsche's anarchic analysis of power and force which did so much to disintegrate it. For Lowith, this disintegration occurred by way of Marxism and Existentialism, through which Hegel's incorporation of Christianity into Idealism would find itself split apart and rejected.

This study was completed from exile in Japan in 1939, where Lowith, a Jewish academic who was formerly a friend and pupil of Heidegger's, had fled the Nazis. Such a historical backdrop lends this book an urgency that, despite its thoroughness and even-handed tone, aims to confront the fate of German thought. The present English translation was originally published in America in the previous year.

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