Marquette studies in philosophy ;

"First published in 1938 by a leader of the Council Communism movement, Anton Pannekoek's Lenin as Philospher offers a classic left-wing interpretation and critique of Lenin's philosophical accomplishment and its relationship to the development of Leninism as perhaps the dominant political theory of the twentieth century. Providing a detailed discussion of the philosophical background to the Machist controversy which occasioned Lenin's Materialism and Empirio criticism, Pannekoek's study still stands as one of the most forceful and politically astute discussions of the topic available. Published here for the first time in an annotated and scholarly edition, this masterpiece of Marxist criticism is accompanied by a lengthy new introduction expanding and assessing Pannekoek's discussion and arguing for the continuing relevance of Lenin's thought for Marxism in the new millennium."--BOOK JACKET.

»In ihrer prinzipiellen Abhängigkeit von der nichthintergehbaren, wohl aber rekonstruierbaren Umgangssprache stellt die unbegrenzte Argumentationsgemeinschaft den Kern und die Voraussetzung eines transzendentalhermeneutischen Selbstverständnisses der Philosophie dar. Darin – so scheint mir – liegt die synthetische Einheit der im folgenden belegten Transformation der Philosophie.« Apel (Quelle: [Suhrkamp Verlag](

With the publication of Reason and Existenz, originally delivered as a series of five lectures at the University of Groningen in 1935, one of the most important of Jaspers's philosophic works is made available to the English-speaking world. It concerns itself with a general statement of the principal philosophic categories which have given uniqueness to Jaspers's thinking: existence, freedom, and history, and the limit-situations of death, suffering, and sin. Written shortly after Jaspers's major systematic work and before his analysis of the problem of truth, Reason and Existenz occupies a primary position in the development of his thought.

"Originally entitled Über Ressentiment and moralisches Werturteil."