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Georg Picht: A Pioneer in Philosophy, Politics and the Arts

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Editors:
  1. Enno Rudolph

    1. Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

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  2. Johannes Picht

    1. Schliengen, Germany

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  • Presents for the first time the key texts by the German philosopher and political thinker Georg Picht
  • Is based on Picht’s excellent grasp of the classics like Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Explains why his lifelong friend Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker called him his “teacher”

Part of the book series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice (PAHSEP, volume 19)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Prologue: Atonal Philosophy – In Memory of Theodor W. Adorno († 6 August 1969)

    • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
    Pages 1-4

  3. Ancient Greek Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Epiphany of the Eternal Present – Truth, Being and Appearance in Parmenides (1960)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 7-42

    3. The Irony of Socrates (1971)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 43-56

    4. The Concept of Energeia in Aristotle (1959)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 57-72

  4. Ethics, Politics and Right

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Kant’s Transcendental Grounding of International Right (1971)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 75-105

    3. The Intellectual-Historical Background of the Doctrine of Human Right (1957/1980)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 107-121

    4. Philosophy and Politics (1972)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 123-128

    5. The Philosophical Concept of Ethics (1978)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 129-147

  5. Time and History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Time and Modalities (1971)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 151-160

    3. The Historical Nature of the Human Being (1976)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 161-173

  6. Art and Myth (1972/1973)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. The Conflict Between Art and Society

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 177-188

    3. Absolute Art and Politics

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 189-196

    4. The Crisis of European Art and the Emergence of Esthetics

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 197-202

    5. Myth and Affect

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 203-214

    6. Epilogue: On Evil (1981)

      • Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht
      Pages 215-227
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About this book

Aimed at an international readership, this book offers a representative collection of essays by the German philosopher, Georg Picht (1913-1982), who was a specialist in Greek philosophy, practical philosophy and philosophy of religion. Picht's themes address different disciplines, such as ancient philosophy, systematic philosophy and political analysis, and often contain critical statements on significant developments from the European Enlightenment to the Cold War era. Other essays offer a distinctive interdisciplinary approach characteristic of the author. These contributions are relevant to both philosophy and science as they discuss, for instance, philosophical definitions of space and time or the relationship between history and evolution. Another part of the book includes texts on art that present Picht’s authentic definition of art and his theory of the interdependence of art and politics.


• For the first time, key texts of the German philosopher and political thinker Georg Picht are presented to a global readership in English.


• Like Nietzsche’s philosophy, Picht’s work is grounded in his outstanding professionalism in the different fields of classics, embracing not only textsand theories of the great thinkers from the pre-Socratic to the post-Aristotelian and Stoic philosophies but also the main currents of ancient literature.


• Picht’s importance as a political author and public adviser is exceptional, and may explain why his lifelong friend Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker – another pioneer presented in this series – called him his “teacher”.
 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Enno Rudolph

  • Schliengen, Germany

    Johannes Picht

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