The German Idealism Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Ideas, Responses, and Legacy
Redaktion: Bykova, Marina F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474286657
• Artikelnr.: 57903570

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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 Körner" (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 Hölderlin'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
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Rezensionen

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.