Collected Essays of Rudolf Eucken

by Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Meyrick Booth

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Genres: Nobel Prize

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

Rudolf Christoph Eucken (German: [ˈɔʏkn̩]; 5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life".

Reviews

[Lisajean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rudolf Eucken won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1908 "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life."

Eucken's Collected Essays are #64/121 on my Nobel reading challenge. I can see the "range of vision" and the "idealistic philosophy" in his writing, but the topics and scope felt very dated; there wasn't anything that felt relevant or meaningful to my life.