Ernst Troeltsch
Subtitle: his life and work
By: Hans-Georg Drescher.
Edition: 1st Fortress Press ed.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780800626747
Subjects: Troeltsch, Ernst, 1865-1923.; Theologians -- Germany -- Biography.
Description: This first full-length biography meets the growing interest in Ernst Troeltsch's insights in modern historical consciousness and the relativism that seems to accompany it. Hans-Georg Drescher traces Troeltsch's life from his birth in Augsburg, distinguished university career and meteoric rise to be professor of theology in Heidelberg to his final change of faculty and appointment as professor of philosophy in Berlin. In connection with each major period of Troeltsch's life, Drescher analyzes Troeltsch's major theological and philosophical work, much of which has never been translated. Here, then, is a vivid picture, not only of the thinker who was virtually the first to tackle on a broad front the many problems for religious belief and practice raised by the rise of the modern historical consciousness but also of German university life in all its facets before, during, and immediately after the First World War. The impact of this study is heightened by a series of contemporary photographs. For many Troeltsch is problematic because his expressions seem to vary depending on the context. Drescher's genetic approach presents a deeply dialogical thinker who, as his friend Carl Neumann, the Heidelberg art historian, once put it, carried on "dialogues ... with books and people."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-340) and index.
Translation of: Ernst Troeltsch.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The beginning of Troeltsch's life and work (1865-1894). Youth in Augsburg; title: Student years (1884-1891); title: Teaching begins (1891-1894); title: Part two : Professor of Theology in Heidelberg. The first years (1894-1900); title: Defining his academic position; title: In the prime of life and activity (1900-1915); title: Part three : Main works from the Heidelberg period (1900-1914). Introductory remarks : Troeltsch as a theological author; title: Historical description and analysis of the time; title: Works on theology and the philosophy of religion; title: Part four : Philosopher of culture in Berlin (1915-1923). Personal situation and contemporary history; title: Collaboration in the building of the Weimar Republic; title: New thematic focal points; title: Preparations for the trip to England and Troeltsch's sudden death