Prometheus - Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Idealismus

The third volume of Han’s Urs von Balthasar’s Early Writings, The Apocalypse of the German Soul. Studies for a Doctrine of Ultimate Positions, is itself divided into three volumes. The first of these, German Idealism was originally published in 1937 and reissued in 1947 under a new title: Prometheus. All three deal with the history of the eschatological problem in German thought; as the new title suggests, the present one does so through the lens of cultural “Prometheanism,” whose development Balthasar traces from its pre-history in German thought (Reformation, Baroque, and Enlightenment), through its classical expression in German idealism, to its crisis in the either-or represented by the “duel” between Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.