100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War

Abstract

Introduction: European thought, after the Deluge; Rory Jeffs and Matthew Sharpe -- Part I: Singin’ in the Shade? -- 1. Singin’ in the Shade: An Introduction to Post-Post-War Thought; William H. F. Altman -- 2. Nationality, State and Global Constitutionalism in Hermann Cohen’s Wartime Writings; Miguel Vatter -- Part II: Weimar and its shadows -- 3. The Sons destined to Murder their Father: Crisis in Interwar Germany; Petra Brown -- 4. The Spengler Connection: Total Critiques of Reason and The Decline of the West; Julian Potter -- 5. The Significance of World War One in Jan Patocka’s Philosophy; Daniel Brennan -- Part III: Intellectual movements -- 6. A New Vision of How the Great War Influenced Freud’s Psychoanalysis; Talia Morag -- 7. The Long Shadow of Leninist Politics: Radical Strategy and Revolutionary Warfare after a Century; Geoff Boucher -- 8. Hegel in Dark Times: The Resurrections of Geist from the Ashes of War; Rory Jeffs -- 9. The Spectre of Collectivism: Neoliberalism, the Wars, and Historical Revisionism; Damien Cahill -- Part IV: Academic philosophy in a time of wars -- 10. The divide between philosophy and enthusiasm: The Effect of the World Wars on Relations between British and Continental Philosophies; Sherah Bloor -- 11. Philosophy and/or politics? Two trajectories of philosophy after the Great War and their contamination; Jack Reynolds -- Part V: After the wars have ended? -- 12. Modernity, civilisation, culture and the ‘War to end all Wars’: Or we begin and end in the mess; John Rundell -- 13. 1750, casualty of 1914? Lest we forget (The preKantian enlightenment); Matthew Sharpe -- List of Contributors. .