The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

by Bernard Yack

Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their discontent its peculiar breadth and intensity.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics

411 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1986

Reviews

[Jordyn]

I cannot recommend this enough, fundamentally shaped my understanding of these thinkers.