Time criticism
Time criticism is the criticism of the current age , the current zeitgeist . In contrast to cultural criticism, criticism of time has no historical awareness and, as part of general philosophy, is also practiced in the form of political science. Modern criticism of time refers to the entire modern era, but especially to the 20th and 21st centuries.
Main groups
- Criticism of the political situation and state criticism (e.g. militarism , fascism or liberalism ).
- Criticism of the economic situation such as economic crises and unemployment.
- Criticism of the ecological situation such as global warming , environmental protection or nuclear energy .
- Science criticism and scientific world interpretation. (e.g. brain research )
Time critic
- Joseph von Eichendorff saw time criticism as a criticism of the modern image of man.
- Martin Heidegger spoke of the hidden dangers of technology in his speech Serene and thus came from existential criticism to contemporary criticism, which he called "a criticism of our present relationship to the world as a relationship that only wants to master, objectifying, accessing and attacking".
- Johann Ludwig Ewald calls for the principles of justice, equity and humanity to be generally effective.
- In 1931, Karl Jaspers referred to Sören Kierkegaard in his critique of existential philosophy and used the term leveling to characterize modern mass phenomena .
swell
- ^ Franz Xaver Ries: Critique of the times with Joseph von Eichendorff. Duncker & Humblot Publisher, 1997, ISBN 9783428086733
- ↑ Hans-Martin Kirn: German Late Enlightenment and Pietism: their relationship in the context of church-civil reform with Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822). Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 9783525558188
Web links
Wiktionary: Zeitgeist - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
