German(e) encounters with global crisis
Deconstructing society and reconstructing spirituality
pp. 131-149
Résumé
German philosophers and political thinkers of the last century – Jaspers, Arendt and Strauss prominent among them – express shared frustration with the modern situation and candid assessments of its dangers. Jaspers reflects on the atomic age and the modern dissolution of values; Arendt criticizes the bureaucratic machinery of modern society as anti-political; and Strauss expresses distrust of modern logics of science and history as tending towards historical forgetfulness. In this paper, I examine the formative effects of these tendencies in relation to emotional and epistemic considerations of identity and the social and cultural relations which frame them. I argue that, in their audacity to engage with modern crisis in global terms, Jaspers, Arendt and Strauss provide thoughtful perspectives on a thoughtless age, perspectives not only German but germane.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Tava Francesco, Caminada Emanuele (2016) Facing global crisis after Europe. Metodo 4 (1).
Pages: 131-149
Citation complète:
Dew Rebecca, 2016, German(e) encounters with global crisis: Deconstructing society and reconstructing spirituality. Metodo 4 (1), Facing global crisis after Europe, 131-149. https://doi.org/10.19079/metodo.4.1.131.