19. The Collapse of the Old Order

Kai Froeb 2026

Part V: The First World War as a Philosophical Caesura (1914-1920)

  1. The War as the End of an Era
  2. The Collapse of Progressive Optimism
  3. The “Ideas of 1914” - German War Hegelianism
  4. The Indictment - Hegel as Culprit for the War
  5. The End of German-American Culture
  6. Philosophical Reorientations During the War
  7. The War as Dialectic of Modernity
  8. The Shock to the European Intelligentsia
  9. The October Revolution (1917) as a Second Rupture
  10. Reorientation - Between Restoration and Revolution
  11. Systematic Conclusion: Pluralization Without Mediation

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