Beyond Kant and Nietzsche: The Munich Defence of Christian Humanism (Illuminating Modernity)

About the Author
Balázs M. Mezei is Professor of Philosophy at Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Hungary. He has widely published on the philosophy of religion, phenomenology, and literary criticism. He is the author of the two-volume Philosophy of Religion (2005, in Hungarian), with Barry Smith, The Four Phases of Philosophy (1998), and Religion and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2013). He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation and series editor of Illuminating Modernity (Bloomsbury).
The Christian Humanist ideas of six Catholic scholars who were based in Munich during the first half of the 20th century are profiled in this volume. They were all interested in presenting and defending a Christian humanism in the aftermath of German Idealism and the anti-Christian humanism of Friedrich Nietzsche. They were seeking to offer hope to Christians during the darkest years of the Nazi regime and the post-Second World War era of shame, guilt and reconstruction.