The Book of Job: A Philosopho-Anthropological Search in a German Intellectual Novel

The paper deals with the analysis of the novel “Berlin – Alexanderplatz” by Alfred Döblin on the basis of philosopho-anthropological conceptions. The study demonstrates the importance of anthropological inquiry in the disquieting search for the human identity. The authors’ approach allows for deeper understanding of culture as the human ability of feeling sense, attaching importance to every individual human's life at every historical moment.The view of culture as a transcendental reality of absolute values, global universals is preserved in the German intellectual novel. The novel is defined by a deep existential anthropological search, but at once it reveals the understanding of Culture as the human ability of feeling sense, of attaching importance to every individual human's life, to every historical moment.