Karl Löwith
Karl Löwith was a German philosopher best known for his critiques of historicism and his analysis of secularization in modern thought. A student of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl during the Weimar Republic, Löwith developed a distinctive philosophical position that questioned the progressivist assumptions underlying much of nineteenth and twentieth-century European philosophy, and is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
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Background
- Born in
- Munich
- Educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenUniversity of Freiburg
- Awards
- 🏆 Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna
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"The mere fact that Christianity interprets itself as a new Testament, superseding an old one and fulfilling the promises of the latter, necessarily invites further progress and innovations, either rel…"
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1897
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