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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Harry RednerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9781412857116ISBN 10: 1412857112 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 30 October 2015 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIf one puts this book in the context of the full four-volume study, it amounts to an extraordinary achievement, involving years of reading and reflection and covering an enormous amount of ground. - Professor Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, USA As intellectual historian Harry Redner demonstrates in his seminal book The Tragedy of European Civilization, the unlikely though not always unwitting executioners of the West were philosophers, psychologists, and other wordsmiths who not only predicted but also contributed to the demise of the very ideas that had nurtured them... For along with Reason dies responsibility, the private realm, the individual, creativity, and indeed everything that we value. Hatred, metaphysical or otherwise, will spell not only the end of the misguided, solipsistic, self-destructive intellectuals who espouse it, but also the death of civilization and of humanity as we know it. - Juliana Geran Pilon, The Cato Journal, Spring-Summer 2016 In this outstanding work of intellectual history, Redner argues with great force that European intellectuals must bear considerable responsibility for causing the horrors the 20th century. Karl Marx romanticized revolution (here, Redner focuses on the seizure of power by Louis Napoleon), and Friedrich Nietzsche glorified power. After them, Oswald Spengler called for authoritarian socialism in Germany, and Martin Heidegger defended Nazi rule. Marx was no racist, but Nietzsche, Spengler, and Heidegger were, and all these thinkers were advocates (in their different ways) of violence. In brief, the legacy of the Enlightenment (with its commitment to scientific objectivity and human rights) was cast aside. Redner also examines the failings of the more moderate thinkers of the period who sought to understand their time and finds that they-Sigmund Freud, Norbert Elias, and Hannah Arendt--all fell short of the mark. To put it bluntly, none of the three knew history, or they knew too little of it. The same was even truer of Michel Foucault. Redner argues that only Max Weber had a real understanding of the contemporary world. --S. Bailey, Knox College Author InformationHarry Redner Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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