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Conservatism and Crisis Conservatism and Crisis The Anti-Modernist Perspective in Twentieth-Century German Philosophy David J. Rosner LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2012byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Rosner,DavidJ. Conservatismandcrisis:theanti-modernistperspectiveintwentieth-centuryGermanphilosophy/ DavidJ.Rosner. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7391-7551-4(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-0-7391-7552-1(electronic) 1.Philosophy,German--20thcentury.I.Title. B3181.R672012 193--dc23 2012022453 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica “Fromanobjectivepointofview,wehavebeenbesiegedwithtoomuch thatisnew.Ourpowersofcomprehensionhavebeenunabletokeeppace withit....Westandnotinfrontofmachinesbutratherinfrontofthe machineculture,exactlyasifbeforeawar;draggedinmidspeechinto themidstoftheturmoil...inthefaceoftherealityrisingupallaround us.” —WilhelmMichel WilhelmMichel,“DichtungundGegenwart,”NeueRundschau,7,1931, asquotedinSergiuszMichalski,NewObjectivity:NeueSachlichkeit: PaintinginGermanyinthe1920s(Koln,Taschen,2003),202. Contents Acknowledgements vii Figures ix Preface xi 1 Aporia:Modernity’sPhilosophicalLegacy 1 2 AbyssandGroundinWeimar 29 3 RetreatfromModernity 65 4 FearandHopeinPostModernity 87 WorksCited 99 Index 103 v
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