Lebensphilosophie
Sign in to savethumb|Clockwise from top left: Henri Bergson|Bergson, Dilthey, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. ' (; meaning "philosophy of life'") was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy.
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Characteristics and schools
- The infinite in the finite
- Precursors
- History and representatives
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Historicism
- France and Bergsonism
- Late 19th century and early 20th century popularity
- Interwar period and German Lebensphilosophie
- Influence
- Association with American pragmatism
- Criticism
- Irrationalism
- Vitalism
- Relativism
- Connection to Nazism
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Clockwise from top left: Henri Bergson|Bergson, Dilthey, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. ' (; meaning "philosophy of life") was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy.
Its central theme was that an understanding of life can only be apprehended by life itself, and from within itself. Drawing on the critiques of epistemology offered by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, notable ideas of the movement have been seen as precursors to both Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian existential phenomenology.
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