[8] October 10 - Philosophy militant
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Max Scheler, “Table of categories of English thought,” from Der Genius des Krieges und der Deutsche Krieg [The Genius of War and the German War] (1915), 442-443.Wilhelm Jerusalem, The War in Light of Social Theory (1915), 1-20. [original German text here]
Vladimir Ern, "From Kant to Krupp" (1914). [original Russian text here]
Additional resources:
Christopher Stroop, "Nationalist War Commentary as Russian Religious Thought: The Religious Intelligentsia's Politics of Providentialism," Russian Review 72 (2013): 94-115. [on campus only]
Daniel R. Huebner, "Wilhelm Jerusalem's sociology of knowledge in the dialogue of ideas," Journal of Classical Sociology 13 (2013): 430-459. [on campus only]
Randall A. Poole, "Religion, War, and Revolution: E. N. Trubetskoi's Liberal Construction of Russian National Identity, 1912–20," Kritika 7 (2006): 195-. [on campus access]
Thomas Baldwin, "Philosophy and the first world war," The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945 (2008), 365-378. [on-campus access] [Anglocentric, but does discuss the crucial case of Wittgenstein]