The Destruction of Reason. Translated by Peter Palmer London: The Merlin Press, [1980].
First English edition.
Thick octavo. 865 pp., including index. Publisher's full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With original dust jacket. From the library of Dale Riepe, with his ownership inscription to front flyleaf and penciled marginalia to a few leaves, else fine. Jacket is price-clipped and very lightly rubbed, but still near fine.
"Georg Lukács makes no bones about calling The Destruction of Reason a polemical book... It reconsiders the disturbing history of German irrationalism with the investigative tools of historical materialism. Displaying a rare breadth of learning and awareness, Lukács traces the atrocities of Fascism to seeds sown as far back as the older Schelling, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche."
Professor Dale Maurice Riepe (1918-2006), was a major American philosopher and scholar, and was the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo from 1963-1986, and taught at many other schools. His main area of expertise was Eastern Philosophy, and he traveled extensively. He wrote extensively, publishing over seventy articles and several books.
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