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Heidegger and the Ideology of War

Heidegger and the Ideology of War

Losurdo, Domenico

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Philosophy

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ISBN10: 1573929107
ISBN13: 9781573929103
Publisher: Humanity Books
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Domenico Losurdo reconstructs the genesis of Heidegger's philosophy in its historical context, analyzing the meaning and characteristics of the peculiar ideology of war developed in Germany at the outset of the First World War. In the 20th century, conflicts between states took the form for the first time of total war requiring the mobilization of an entire society. This all-pervasive ideological mobilization of consciences was associated at the purely military and industrial level in a form never seen before. On the one hand, among the allied nations the ideology of war centered on the principle of democratic intervention, the Wilsonian idea of a holy crusade able to subvert the eternally militarist and autocratic Germany and, in this way, favor a kind of great international democratic revolution. On the other hand, in a spiral of radicalization, the German ideology of war characterized the looming conflict as a great clash between irreconcilable civilizations, faiths, world-visions, and even races. Germans affirmed not only the superiority of their culture over the enemy countries, but above all the hypothesis of a political and social model that expelled from modernity every universalistic concept of emancipation and democratization.

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