Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

A Biography

Oermann, Nils Ole

Oxford University Press

11/2016

282

Dura

Inglês

9780198784227

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction 1: A sense of devotion: from the parsonage to theology (1875 1903) A pastor s son in Alsace Schooling and early years A student of theology, philosophy, and music Kant Curate, doctoral student, and outsider Theologian or mystic? 2: Saving the whole: from theology to Bach and then to medicine (1903 1912) Bach, or the art of playing the organ The path to a decision The study of medicine The loyal comrade 3: The spiritual adventurer: from Strasbourg to the rainforest and back again (1912 1917) Departure to equatorial Africa Lambarene The outbreak of war and deportation 4: It is good to preserve life: Albert Schweitzer s philosophy of civilisation We are all of us just nothing but epigoni Reverence for life Philosophy of civilisation and religion The importance of animals 5: The iron door opens: crisis and breakthrough (1917 1932) Return to Alsace The lost penny Back in Lambarene On the right treatment of natives 6: With greetings from Central Africa: the time of the Third Reich (1933 1945) The calm before the storm Lambarene during the war 7: Exorcising the ghost of the nuclear war: Schweitzer in the Cold War (1945 1957) The greatest man in the world The Nobel Peace Prize and its consequences Schweitzer, Einstein, and the bomb A bell from the German Democratic Republic Homo politicus 8: How beautiful! The last years (1957 1965) Decolonization and criticism The ninetieth birthday Epilogue: myth and reality Timeline Explanatory Notes
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