Dieses Buch fiihrt den Titel: Der entlarvte Mensch.. Dieser Umstand diirfte keinen mit meinem sonstigen Werk Vertrauten wunder nehmen: so konnten Meine samtlichen friiheren V er~ offentlichungen gleichfalls heiBen. - Es galt, den in sich selbst so schwer sich irrenden und irren wollenden, den sich ver~ steckenden und verstellenden und so erbittert gegen die Auf~ deckung der eigentlich ihm einwohnenden Natur sich wehren~ den Menschen zu ertappen und zu entlarven. Der Mensch hat eine theologische Auffassung von sich als von einem (...) Gott, ahnlich wie von seinem Gott: er pratendiert, der Gute und der wissend Verstehende zu sein" und iiberallhin, auch zu seinesgleichen, geht sein Wille auf gebieterisches V er~ haltnis. Die grundstiirzende Lehre von den Geistigen und vom Yolk stoBt um und Macht unschadlich das traditionelle Bild aberglaubischer und unbandiger Einbildung und setzt an die Stelle dieses eitel~hochmiitigen, wahnhaften und triigerischen Selbstportrats das urheitlich getreue Bild von wirklich psycho~ logischem Wert. J a, es galt den Menschen zu entlarven und ihn zeigbar zu Machen so, wie er wirklich in sich aussieht: dazu war ich immer am Werk und glaube sagen zu diirfen: jetzt ist die Entlarvung vollendet, wie es der Titel des Werkes anzeigt. DER GOTT UND DER ABERGLAUBE YOM VERSTEHEN Wie der Mensch. sa ist sein Gatt; drum aus seinem Gatt der Mensch zu erraten. da ja der Mensch den Gatt nach seinem Ebenbilde macht. Alsa gleichst du deinem Gatt; Mann van Erde. du hast dir aus Erde den Gatt mit Ohren gemacht. (shrink)

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"Constantin Brunner (1862-1937) was a philosopher of considerable originality and importance to whom all too little attention has been paid until quite recently." "This book presents an outline of Brunner's life and personality, then proceeds to relate his philosophy to that of Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Husserl, and Heidegger. There follows an analysis of Brunner's theory of knowledge, the framework of a complete philosophic system which, in many of Brunner's ideas, shows a similarity to (...) that of his contemporary F. H. Bradley, often regarded as one of the greatest English philosophers." "The themes in Brunner's work that Dr. Goetz pursues include: the synthesis of feeling, knowing, and willing; the question of objective knowledge; the relationship between life and thought; the proper understanding of "egoism"; and the ultimate goal of philosophy. Devotees of Husserl and existentialists of various types may be surprised to discover just how far Brunner anticipated the major thinkers in the field of phenomenology."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (shrink)

The German-Jewish writer and poetess, Rose Ausländer, who came from Chernivtsi, capital of Bukovina, one of the former provinces of the Hapsburg Empire, is one of the most highly acclaimed lyric poets to have written in German in the 20th century. Throughout her whole life she was an adherent of the philosophy of Spinoza, first becoming acquainted with it in the so-called “ethics seminar” of the secondary-school teacher Friedrich Kettner. In the wake of the First World War the youth of (...) Chernivtsi were in need of new sources of intellectual stimulation, so he set out to introduce them to the philosophy of Spinoza, as well as to that of Constantin Brunner, a contemporary German philosopher influenced by him. Rose Ausländer remained a follower of Spinoza right up to the end of her life. This is confirmed by her two very different poems of the same name, “Spinoza”—the first composed before 1939, the second in 1979—as well as by her many explorations of topics drawn from his ethics, ranging from her very first printed poem, “Amor Dei,” up to her lyrics written in old age, in the 1970s and 1980s. In this short paper I will attempt to chart the course of, and analyze, her interest in Spinoza's philosophical system and life. (shrink)

Drawing upon the insights of Spinoza and Constantin Brunner, Bickel develops a theory of the identity of mind and body. Difficult to understand.-F. E. B.