Arnshaugk Verlag

Jacob, Alexander: Über die Natur der Natur. Eine Untersuchung zu idealistischen Auffassungen der Natur und des Unbewußten
2020, 242 S., Gb
Verlag: Arnshaugk
ISBN-10: 395930210X ISBN-13: 9783959302104
28,00 €

Die Studie zur europäischen Naturphilosophie beginnt mit den klassischen Vorstellungen zu Geist, Seele, Natur und Unbewußtem und untersucht das Aufleben dieser Begriffe in der Naturphilosophie der Renaissance und des 17. Jahrhunderts. Im deutschen Idealismus und in der Lebensphilosophie wächst die Bedeutung der Vorstellung vom Unbewußten. Jacob zeigt, wie die verschiedenen Denker, etwa die Romantiker und insbesondere Schubert, Carus, Schopenhauer und Hartmann nicht nur die antike Seelenlehre und deren Metaphysik aufgriffen, sondern auch die Jungsche Tiefenpsychologie vorbereiteten.

Jacob, Alexander: De Naturae Natura. A Study of idealistic conceptions of nature and the unconscious
2011, 181 S., Kt
Verlag:
ISBN-10: 1907166335 ISBN-13: 9781907166334
26,00 €

This study of European natural philosophy begins with the classical conceptions of Mind, Soul, Nature and the Unconscious and analyses the revival of these notions in the natural philosophy of the Renaissance and the Seventeenth century. The concept of the Unconscious acquired a major importance in the systems of the German vitalist biologists and the Idealistic philosophers of the Nineteenth century. Jacob shows how these various thinkers, as well as the German Romantic philosophers, and especially Schubert, Carus, Schopenhauer, and Hartmann, not only revived the ancient doctrines of the Soul in their metaphysical schemes but also anticipated the psychological theories of Jung, who, as a psychologist and philosopher, serves as the culminating point of the work. In the Appendix, the author points to the natural philosophical bases of the discussions of racial differences that emerged in the Nineteenth century alongside the investigations into the spiritual capacities of mankind.

Jacob, Alexander: Nobilitas. A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century
2001, 114 S., Kt
Verlag: University Press of America
ISBN-10: 0761818871 ISBN-13: 9780761818878
40,00 €

Nobilitas is a study of the history of aristocratic philosophy from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century that aims at providing an alternative to the liberal democratic norms, which are propagated today as the only viable socio-political system for the world community. Jacob reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the social and cultural development of European civilization has, for twenty-five centuries, been based not on democratic or communist notions but, rather on aristocratic and nationalist notions. Beginning with the political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, and continuing through Renaissance and Baroque aristocratic philosophers, the German Idealists, and English and Italian nationalists, the study ends with the transformation of aristocratic philosophy in nineteenth century Germany into racist elitism. As such, the study includes a survey of the philosophical bases of racism and anti-Semitism. These topics have been systematically excluded from academic and political debate since the end of the last Great War. This study is a pioneering work in understanding and changing political ideologies.