[9] October 14 - Philosophy militant (II)
Section outline
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Please choose one text and prepare to present it for 4-5 minutes in class. (We will agree on the distribution beforehand.)
Czech: Edvard Beneš, "Válka a kultura," Lumír (23 April, 28 May 1915).
Frant. Krejčí, "Právo eksistence malého národa," Česká mysl no. 3 (1915): 225-240.
Hungarian: Kornis Gyula, "A háborús filozófia," Athenaeum 2 (1916): 97-140.
Polish: Solomon Besser, Wojna evropejska jak walka ducha (1915).
Russian: Sergei Bulgakov, "Война и русское самосознание" (1915).
Semen Frank, "Мобилизация мысли в Германии," Русская мысль no. 9 (1916): 20-27.
Ukrainian: Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi, "[The problem of national philosophy]," Філософія на Україні: спроба історіографії (1926), 9-14. [Not contemporary, but clearly written with the wartime experience in mind.]
Slovenian: Gregor Čremošnik, "Vasićeva knjiga »Karakter i mentalitet jednog pokolenja«," Ljubljanski zvon 40 no. 1 (1920): 59-61.
German: Magnus Hirschfeld, Warum hassen uns die Völker? (1915).
Wilhelm Wundt, "Der Geist der Nationen im Krieg und im Frieden," Die Nationen und ihre Philosophie (1915), 116-146.
German (Austrian): Othmar Spann, Zur Soziologie und Philosophie des Krieges. Vortrag im "Verband deutsch-völkischer Akademiker" zu Brünn (1912).
French: Émile Durkheim, L'Allemagne au dessus de tout : la mentalité allemande et la guerre (1915). [English translation]
Teilhard de Chardin, Écrits du temps de la guerre (1975). [temporarily unavailable]
English [French]: Émile Boutroux, "German science," in Philosophy and War (1916). [French text]
English: J. H. Muirhead, German Philosophy in Relation to the War (1915).
English: Leon J. Cole, "Biological philosophy and the war," The Scientific Monthly 8 (1919): 247-257.