Constantin Brunner als Denker der Moderne: Eine biographische und philosophische Skizze
The essay is meant to be an introduction to both Brunner’s life and work. It follows Brunner’s development from a young man, deeply rooted in Jewish orthodoxy, to a secular thinker who made his own original contribution to modern philosophy. In his basic and most important work, Die Lehre von den Ge...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
[2019]
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Aschkenas
Year: 2019, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 243-266 |
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Summary: | The essay is meant to be an introduction to both Brunner’s life and work. It follows Brunner’s development from a young man, deeply rooted in Jewish orthodoxy, to a secular thinker who made his own original contribution to modern philosophy. In his basic and most important work, Die Lehre von den Geistigen und vom Volk, he develops a quite innovative theory of our »relative« world perception, which is on a par with Einstein’s theory of relativity. In his attempt to define the unifying experience of true reality in the faculty of »spiritual thinking« Brunner sheds a new light on the figure of Jesus Christ by making him a representative of a new secular spirituality. But Brunner is also portrayed as an enlightened political thinker, a partisan of Jewish emancipation and a fierce critic of antisemitism, whose criticism of Zionism made him a controversial figure inside the Jewish community. |
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ISSN: | 1865-9438 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Aschkenas
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/asch-2019-0016 |