Karl Löwith

Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, Löwith discusses how Hegel's students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaard, interpreted----or reinterpreted----their master's thought, and proceeds with an in-depth assessment of the other important philosophers, from Feuerbach, Stirner, and Schelling to Nietzsche.

The Revolution in Nineteenth Century Thought

From Hegel to Nietzsche

The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Phoenix Books)

Meaning in History

Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles. The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan—and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Löwith—beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible—analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in Christian times. "A book of distinction and great importance. . . . The author is a master of philosophical interpretation, and each of his terse and substantial chapters has the balance of a work of art."—Helmut Kuhn, Journal of Philosophy

The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History

Richard Wolin

Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism makes available in English Lowith's major writings concerning the origins of cultural breakdown in Europe that paved the way for the Third Reich. Including incisive discussions of Heidegger and Carl Schmitt, a noted legal theorist of the same period who also supported the Third Reich, Heidegger and European Nihilism helps to illuminate the allure of Nazism for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism. Lowith's landmark essay on European nihilism is also included in its entirety here, along with two never-before-published letters from Heidegger to Lowith. In a work of impressive historical depth, Lowith traces the abandonment of higher European ideals in favor of a fatal flirtation with nihilism. These essays explore the enthronement of man above God, a trend that had begun to appear in European thought by the mid-nineteenth century in the works of Nietzsche and Marx and one that informed the nihilist philosophies of Heidegger and other theorists of the early twentieth century. An introduction by editor Richard Wolin provides lucid commentary, placing the three essays gathered here in a broad historical context, along with suggestions for further reading. This seminal work of intellectual history sheds light on the fascist impulses of nihilism in the first half of the twentieth century, but also offers unique perspective on the intellectual malaise of today.

Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism

Escrita durante el exilio en Japón y publicada en 1939, 'De Hegel a Nietzsche' ha sido considerada un clásico y juzgada, con razón, como la obra más importante sobre la filosofía y la historia intelectual del siglo XIX. En ella, Karl Löwith comienza con un examen de las relaciones entre Hegel y Goethe para, a continuación, discutir de qué manera los discípulos de Hegel -y particularmente Marx y Kierkegaard- interpretaron, o reinterpretaron, el pensamiento del maestro. Al señalar a Marx y a Kierkegaard como los precursores del "decisionismo" -con el cual la filosofía legitimaba sus incursiones en el mundo histórico-, Löwith se propone la tarea de desacreditar al historicismo en tanto responsable del nihilismo filosófico y del decisionismo político. Y al orientar su pensamiento hacia la "despotenciación de la conciencia histórica", rehabilita teóricamente la dimensión reprimida por el pensamiento historicista: la naturaleza. De Hegel a Nietzsche tiene, entonces, la peculiaridad de ser un estudio histórico pensado como una respuesta a la identificación de mundo e historia; un intento de contrarrestar los efectos de la conciencia histórica utilizando sus propias armas. Löwith asume ese proyecto paradójico desde la certeza de que, una vez eliminado el presupuesto de la divinidad del cosmos, ya no es posible un retorno a la actitud contemplativa. "El gran libro de Karl Löwith" Alasdair MacIntyre, The New York Review of Books, septiembre de 1964

La quiebra revolucionaria del pensamiento en el siglo XIX

De Hegel a Nietzsche

Gegenpol zur Philosophie der Aufklärung. Karl Löwith thematisiert in seinem Essay zur Geschichtsphilosophie die biblisch verheißene Erlösung der christlichen Menschheit. Schon unmittelbar nach der Veröffentlichung 1949 und 1953 sorgte das Buch weltweit für Furore. Angesichts der heute lebhaft geführten Debatte um das "Ende der Geschichte" und die Thesen Fukuyamas hat Löwiths brillanter philosophischer Essay an Aktualität nichts verloren.

Die theologischen Voraussetzungen der Geschichtsphilosophie

Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschehen

Der Revolutionare Bruch Im Denken Des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Marx und Kierkegaard

Von Hegel Zu Nietzsche

Significato e fine della storia. I presupposti teologici della filosofia della storia

Dio, uomo e mondo nella metafisica da Cartesio a Nietzsche

Fulvio Tessitore

Salvatore Veca

Gillo Dorfles

Alberto Caracciolo

Enzo Paci

Franco Bosio

Bruno Lauretano

Aldo Masullo

Pier Aldo Rovatti

Rossana Scarlattei

Livio Sichirollo

Fascicolo 1-2: Saggi: L. LUGARINI, L’uomo in prospettiva cassireriana; A. MASULLO, La ricerca dell’«unità fondamentale» nella filosofia di Cassirer; S. VECA, Il concetto di numero nella filosofia di E. Cassirer; E. PACI, La presa di coscienza della biologia in Cassirer; P.A. ROVATTI, Funzione e significato della struttura temporale in Cassirer; G. DORFLES, Mito e metafora in Cassirer e Vico; B. LAURETANO, Il linguaggio tra mito e logo nel pensiero Ernst Cassirer. I. Fascicolo 3: Saggi: F. TESSITORE, Vico tra due storicismi; A. CARACCIOLO, Principio della libertà e principio della confessione nell’itinerario religioso; B. LAURETANO, Il linguaggio tra mito e logo nel pensiero Ernst Cassirer. II. Problemi e discussioni: Una lettera di Karl Löwith; F. BOSIO, Per un’analisi della condizione arcaica dell’uomo. Rassegne: R. SCARLATTEI, Rileggere Vico; L. SICHIROLLO, Hegel in una prospettiva della Resistenza tedesca. Recensioni. Libri ricevuti.

Il Pensiero, XIII, 1-3, 1968

For Lowith, the centerpiece of Nietzsche's thought is the doctrine of eternal recurrence, a notion which Lowith, unlike Heidegger, deems incompatible with the will to power.

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same

Philosophische Bilanz des 20. Jahrhunderts

Der Mensch inmitten der Geschichte

Written in 1939 while in exile in Japan. Includes philosphical-biographical vignettes of leading German intellectual figures - the George circle, Oswald Spengler, Karl Barth, Carl Schmitt as well as his meeting with Martin Heidegger in Rome in 1936.

ein Bericht

Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach 1933

Karl Löwith

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