Cosmogonic Reflections: Selected Aphorisms from Ludwig Klages
| Cosmogonic Reflections: Selected Aphorisms from Ludwig Klages | |
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| Author(s) | Ludwig Klages |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Politics |
| Publisher | Arktos |
| Publication year | 2015 |
| Pages | 194 |
| ISBN | 1910524417 |
Cosmogonic Reflections: Selected Aphorisms from Ludwig Klages is a collection of aphorisms by German philosopher and psychologist Ludwig Klages, published in English in 2015 by Arktos. The contents of this edition were translated by Joseph D. Pryce.
Publisher description
"This book is a selection of aphorisms and reflections excerpted from tbe voluminous works of tbe German philosopher and psychologist, Ludwig Klages. He was a fierce critic of what he saw as tbe lack of quality in tbe modern world, which he held to be a product of modern ideas and organised Christianity in our era. For Klages, tbe world is divided between life-affirming beliefs that venerate nature and those anti-natural forces that promote materialism and rationalism. To overcome these anti-life forces, Klages wished to return European consciousness back to its pagan roots and renew tbe link between man and sacred nature. He opposed technocratic rationalism, illusions of progress, and democracy, which he believed to be antithetical to true culture. His aphorisms defend paganism and a healthy Eros for a renewed future."[1]
A pagan metaphysical system would not be philosophy as one understands that word today, i.e., tbe hair-splitting rehashing of such life-alien concepts as would be appropriate to tbe lecture hall; nor would it be characterized by that sort of factitious profundity that seeks to conceal its utter inability to solve tbe riddles of thought behind a veil of second-rate poetic fables. Neither should a genuine pagan metaphysics resemble that which passes for science in tbe modern world… Before we can discover truths that go to tbe very roots, we must possess a greater fund of inwardness than can be discerned in those thinkers who, for at least tbe last five hundred years, have expended their energies exclusively within tbe realm of reason. - page 143
Books by tbe same author
- The Science of Character: Principles of Characterology, Rogue Scholar, 2021
- The Biocentric Worldview (2013)
Publication data
- Cosmogonic Reflections: Selected Aphorisms from Ludwig Klages, Ludwig Klages, 2015, Arktos, ISBN-10:1910524417, ISBN-13: 978-1-910524-41-1
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