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The Philosophy of Life - German Lebensphilosophie, 1870-1920 (Hardcover)
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The Philosophy of Life - German Lebensphilosophie, 1870-1920 (Hardcover)
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Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement called
Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until
1920. Author Frederick C. Beiser focuses on its most prominent
members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel.
Lebensphilosophie appeared at a critical movement in Western
culture; it was a response to several important cultural
developments of the late 19th century: atheism, relativism,
historicism and pessimism. The Lebensphilosophen believed that
meaning of life had to be found in life itself and denied the
relevance of any transcendent realm of meaning. To affirm the value
of life, they reacted against Schopenhauer's pessimism; they
proclaimed that the joys of life outweighed its sorrows, and that
there is an infinite value in living life to its fullest. They
developed a radical individualist ethic, which proclaimed the value
of individual self-realization above all other goods. As part of
this radical individualism, they disputed the existence of absolute
moral values; and by insisting on the historicity of life, they
affirmed the relativity of all values. This was the first
intellectual movement in the Western tradition to develop an
entirely secular and humanist conception of life. Many of its
doctrines are familiar to students of Nietzsche; but readers will
find that he was only one of an entire intellectual movement.
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