Talk:Ludwig Büchner
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[edit]I added a link to a page with some brief excerpts from Büchner's book, Force and Matter. I would certainly like to find a link to a complete edition of that book.
Jim F.
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Why "extreme" ?!
[edit]In the text (07.03.2011):
"The extreme materialism of this work excited so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his post at Tübingen."
I mean: The cause of the end of his academical career was not so much his extreme materialism, but simply his open materialism, which was publicly known and even amplified by his bestseller.
"extreme" is in this context only a subjective judgment, which depends from the point of view of the philosophical reviewer.
But as history goes, the conflict was not between "extreme" and "moderate" materialism, but of materialism against spiritualism and theology (similar in many accounts to the conflict nowadays between Darwinism and creationism).
See this citation:
"Tendenz und Art der Darstellung gewannen dem zuerst 1855 (bei Meidinger in Frankfurt a. M.) erschienen Werke eine solche Teilnahme, dass schon nach wenigen Wochen eine neue Auflage veranstaltet werden konnte. Für den Verfasser selbst hatte dasselbe die persönlich unangenehme Folge, dass er seinen Lehrstuhl in Tübingen aufgeben und in die Heimat zurückkehren musste, wo er seine frühere Tätigkeit als praktischer Arzt wieder aufnahm. Das Buch erlebte inzwischen immer neue Auflagen, rief einen wahren Sturm in der Presse und eine große Menge anfeindender Kritiken, wie geharnischter Gegenschriften hervor und verwickelte Büchner in eine Reihe literarischer Streitigkeiten, denen er teils durch die Vorreden zur dritten und vierten Auflage von „Kraft und Stoff“, teils durch Journalartikel zu begegnen suchte, in welchen er außerdem noch andere, seiner Richtung verwandte Gegenstände in den Kreis der Besprechung zog."
Friedrich Carl Christian Ludwig Büchner, Verfasser von „Kraft und Stoff“. Aus: „Unsere Zeit, Jahrbuch zum Conversationslexikon“, Brockhaus, 1863, 75. Heft oder Bogen 10 – 13 des siebenten Bandes, Seite 199 u. fg.
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