We live in an age when what some of us still fondly call “the public sphere” has grown thick with personalities who prefer the TED Talk to the printed word and the tweet to the rigors of rational argument. As a public intellectual, however, he may seem an unlikely hero. Even at his ripe age-he is now 87-Habermas’s passion remains undiminished.
Whether used as an introductory companion or advanced scholarly resource, Weimar Thought provides insight into the rich developments behind the intellectual foundations of modernity.The pensive man with the snow-white hair was the philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, who for more than six decades has played the part of gadfly in modern Germany, just as Socrates did in ancient Athens. The volume brings together established and emerging scholars from a remarkable array of fields, and each individual essay serves as an overview for a particular discipline while offering distinctive critical engagement with relevant problems and debates. The book is divided into four thematic law, politics, and society philosophy, theology, and science aesthetics, literature, and film and general cultural and social themes of the Weimar period. In this incomparable collection, Weimar Thought presents both the specialist and the general reader a comprehensive guide and unified portrait of the most important innovators, themes, and trends of this fascinating period. Even today, the Weimar era remains a vital resource for new intellectual movements.
Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics―such as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, and Martin Heidegger―emerged during this time to become the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodĭuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918–33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts.
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