Presents for the first time the key texts by the German philosopher and political thinker Georg Picht

Is based on Picht's excellent grasp of the classics like Friedrich Nietzsche

Explains why his lifelong friend Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker called him his "teacher"

Chapter 1. Prologue: Atonal Philosophy - In Memory of Theodor W. Adorno (1969).- Part I. Ancient Greek PhilosophyChapter.- Chapter 2. The Epiphany of the Eternal Present (1960).- Chapter 3. The Irony of Sokrates (1971).- Chapter 4. The Concept of energeia in Aristotle (1959).- Part II. Ethics, Politics and Right.- Chapter 5. Kant's Transcendental Grounding of International Right (1971).- Chapter 6. The Intellectual-historical Background of the Doctrine of Human Right (1957/1980).- Chapter 7. Philosophy and Politics (1972).- Chapter 8. The Philosophical Concept of Ethics (1978).- Part III. Time and History.- Chapter 9. Time and Modalities (1971).- Chapter 10. The Historical Nature of the Human Being (1976).- Part IV. Art and Myth (1972/1973).- Chapter 11. The Conflict Between Art and Society.- Chapter 12. Absolute Art and Politics.- Chapter 13. The Crisis of European Art and the Emergence of Esthetics.- Chapter 14. Myth and Affect.- Book backmatter.