EXISTENTIALISM Kierkegaard Heidegger Marxism Hegel 1966 First Edition HC Lowith

by Karl Löwith

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Nature, History, and Existentialism by Karl Löwith Published by Northwestern University Press, 1966. First Edition. Good hardcover, in good dustjacket in mylar wrapper. Tight binding, slight spine canter, previous owner’s signature to ffep, foxing to edges & endpapers, edge tears to dj repaired with archival tape. 8vo, index, 220 pages. Nature, History, and Existentialism stands as Karl Löwith’s incisive probe into philosophy’s tangled roots, issued in 1966 by Northwestern University Press, a hub for scholarly rigor. Löwith (1897-1973), a German philosopher shaped by Heidegger’s tutelage and exile from Nazi Germany, compiles essays spanning his career. Edited with an introduction by Arnold Levison, this collection reflects the mid-1960s surge in existential thought, set against Cold War anxieties and a restless quest for meaning beyond dogma. The book gathers Löwith’s reflections on nature’s clash with history, threading through existentialism’s rise from Kierkegaard to Heidegger. It tackles Descartes’ nature-history split, Vico’s counterpoint, and Heidegger’s Being and Time, where human historicity trumps a static cosmos. Essays dissect Hegel’s cunning reason, Marx’s materialist pivot, and the Greeks’ eternal cycles, framing a critique of progress as illusion. Levison’s preface anchors these in Löwith’s lifelong wrestle with modernity’s drift. The work’s marrow lies in its stark unraveling of existent

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Year: 1966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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