My life in Germany before and after 1933 : a report

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My life in Germany before and after 1933 : a report

Karl Löwith ; translated by Elizabeth King

University of Illinois Press, c1994

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Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach 1993

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-156) and index

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Description

Written in 1939 while the philosopher Karl Lowith was in exile in Japan, and first published in Germany in 1986, this autobiography focuses on the years 1914-39, a crucial period in the growth of Hitler's Germany. It covers Lowith's youth in Germany, his emigration to Italy and from there to Japan, and his meeting with Martin Heidegger in Rome in 1936. Included are philosophical-biographical vignettes of leading German intellectual figures of the day: the George circle, Oswald Spengler, Karl Barth, and Carl Schmitt. My Life in Germany Before and After 1933 represents the search by a German-Jewish intellectual for political and cultural identity in the Germany of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. It provides a valuable account of the intellectual and social ambience before and after 1933 and will be of value to philosophers, intellectual historians, and those interested in German history.

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  • NCID
    BA55661901
  • ISBN
    • 0252021215
    • 0252064097
  • LCCN
    93043772
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ger
  • Place of Publication
    Urbana
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 175 p., [22] p. of plates
  • Size
    23 cm
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