Großheim, Michael  Politischer Existentialismus. Subjektivität zwischen Entfremdung und Engagement
2002. IX, 534 pages. PhU 9

ISBN 978-3-16-147902-1
cloth € 79.00

Michael Großheim

Politischer Existentialismus

Subjektivität zwischen Entfremdung und Engagement

[Political Existentialism. Subjectivity between Alienation and Engagement. By Michael Großheim.]

Published in German.

The attitude of amoral self-commitment, which in the current discussion is attributed solely to Islam, must be put into a larger context. In the form of political existentialism, this recent cause of disconcertment and helplessness is part of our own culture, a part which can look back on a two hundred-year tradition. Michael Großheim describes the philosophical roots of this "eerie, sinister, frightening world of absolute unselfishness" (Hannah Arendt) by analyzing texts and ideas of Friedrich Schlegel's concept of "self-destruction," Hegel's thoughts on the "abstraction from onself" and Gudrun Ensslin's "holy self-fulfillment."

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