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The German Idealism Reader is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel - and including those thinkers often considered as secondary, but who are also crucial for understanding of this period, the Reader presents an influential era in all its philosophical complexity. Through its broad coverage of philosophers and their texts, it offers a complete dynamic picture of the intellectual period and features: - Selections from key texts by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel - Readings from Reinhold, Schiller, Maimon, Schulze, Jacobi, Hölderlin, and Novalis - Responses to and critiques of German idealist thought by late nineteenth century thinkers, such as Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche - Selections extending beyond the typical focus on epistemology and metaphysics to include ethics, religion, society, and art - A general introduction and timeline, together with a chronology and bibliography to each thinker and introductory overviews to both thinkers and text With readings carefully selected to illustrate thinkers in dialogue with each other, The German Idealism Reader provides a better appreciation of the philosophical discussions central to the period. This is essential reading for all students of German idealism and the nineteenth-century German and Continental philosophies, as well as to those studying the important movements and periods of European intellectual history.

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Author:   Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9781474286671

ISBN 10:   1474286674
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   28 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: About the Reader Acknowledgements German Idealism: Surveying the Philosophical Landscape. Introduction Selected Bibliography on German Idealism for Further Reading Chronology of the Age of German Idealism PART I: Kant and First Receptions of the Critical Philosophy 1. IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) Introduction Chronology of Immanuel Kant's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 1787): Selections. (2) From Critique of Practical Reason (1788): Selections. (3) From Critique of the Power of Judgement (1790): Selections. 2. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI (1743-1819) Introduction Chronology of Friedrich Jacobi's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (1785): Selections. (2) From Jacobi to Fichte (1799): Selections. 3. KARL LEONHARD REINHOLD (1757-1823) Introduction Chronology of Karl Reinhold's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (1786-87): Selections. (2) From The Foundation of Philosophical Knowledge (1791): Selections. 4. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER (1759-1805) Introduction Chronology of Friedrich Schiller's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Kallias or Concerning Beauty: Letters to Gottfried Koerner (1793): Selections. (2) From On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795-8): Selections. 5. GOTTLOB ERNST SCHULZE (1761-1833) Introduction Chronology of Gottlob's Schulze's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Aenesidemus, or Concerning the Foundations of the Philosophy of Elements Issued by Professor Reinhold in Jena together with a Defense of Skepticism against the Pretentions of the Critique of Reason (1792): Selections. 6. SALOMON MAIMON (1753-1800) Introduction Chronology of Salomon Maimon's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Essay Towards a New Logic or Theory of Thought, Together with Letters of Philaletes to Aenesidemus (1794) (2) Letter from Maimon to Kant (1789) (3) From Maimon's article from the Berlin Journal for Enlightenment (1790). PART II: Rise of German Idealism and Post-Kantian Idealist Thinkers 7. JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE (1762-1814) Introduction Chronology of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Review of Aenesidemus (1794): Selections. (2) From Wissenschaftslehre, First & Second Introductions of 1797/98: Selections. 8. JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN (1770-1843) Introduction Chronology of Friedrich Hoelderlin's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From On the Law of Freedom (1794) (2) From On the Concept of Punishment (1795) (3) From Judgment and Being (1795) (4) From Letter to Hegel (26 January 1795) (5) The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism (1796) 9. NOVALIS (GEORG FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON HARDENBERG) (1772-1801) Introduction Chronology of Novalis' Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Fichte Studies (1795-1796): Selections (2) From Logological Fragments I (1797-98): Selections 10. FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING (1775-1854) Introduction Chronology of Friedrich Schelling's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Presentation of My System of Philosophy (1801): Selections (2) From Further Presentations from the System of Philosophy (1802): Selections (3) From Philosophical Investigation into the Essence of Human Freedom and Related Matters (1809): Selections 11. GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1779-1831) Introduction Chronology of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Phenomenology of Spirit (1807): Selections (2) From Elements of the Philosophy of Right Or Natural Law and Political Science in Outline (1821): Selections (3) From The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (the 3rd (1830) ed.): Selections PART III: Post-Hegelian Critics and Responses 12. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) Introduction Chronology of Arthur Schopenhauer's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From The World as Will and Representation (1819): Selections (2) From On the Basis of Morals (1840): Selections 13. LUDWIG ANDREAS FEUERBACH (1804-1872) Introduction Chronology of Ludwig Feuerbach's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy (1839): Selections (2) From The Essence of Christianity (1841): Selections (3) From Principles of the Philosophy of the Future (1843): Selections 14. KARL MARX (1818-1883) Introduction Chronology of Karl Marx's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Toward a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction (1843): Selections (2) From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844): Selections (3) Theses on Feuerbach (1845) 15. SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD (1813-1855) Introduction Chronology of Soren Kierkegaard's Life and Works Selected Bibliography Further Reading Selections (1) From Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846): Selections (2) From The Sickness Unto Death. A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (1849): Selections 16. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) Introduction Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche's Life and Works Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Selections (1) From Schopenhauer as Educator (1874): Selections. (2) From Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886): Selections INDEX

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This is a fine and very welcome collection of texts by the most important representatives and critics of German Idealism. It covers an impressive range of topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics, and will enable both students and general readers to discover the extraordinary richness and profundity of German Idealist thought. * Stephen Houlgate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. * This an outstanding collection, with an unusually wide range of of well-chosen selections from Reinhold, Novalis, and Hoelderlin as well as all the major systematicians. This is a very useful volume for anyone teaching or researching in the area of German Idealism * Karl Ameriks, McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy (emeritus), University of Notre Dame, USA * The German Idealism Reader provides an excellent pathway into this fascinating and vital philosophical tradition. The well-chosen selection of accessible translations from an unusually wide range of authors is accompanied by helpful introductions to guide the reader through the twists and turns of one of modernity's defining cultural movements. * Paul Redding, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Australia *

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Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA. She is the Editor of the journal Russian Studies in Philosophy

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