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Contents
- 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