German Philosophy since Kant

Twenty essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture series on modern major German thinkers.

Anthony O'Hear (Edited by)

9780521667821, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 November 1999

452 pages
23.3 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.645 kg

This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy shows the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, partly to challenge the idea that there are two separate, non-communicating traditions. The distinguished contributors include Robert Solomon writing on Nietzsche, Michael Inwood on Heidegger, P. M. S. Hacker on Frege and Wittgenstein, Christopher Janaway on Schopenhauer, Thomas Uebel on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, and Jay Bernstein on Adorno. The collection is rounded off by a paper by Jürgen Habermas specifically on hermeneutic and analytic philosophy.

Preface
Notes on contributors
1. Fichte and Schelling Roger Hausheer
2. Hegel's critique of foundationalism in the 'Doctrine of Essence' Stephen Houlgate
3. Schopenhauer's pessimism Christopher Janaway
4. Karl Marx David-Hillel Ruben
5. Nietzsche's virtues: a personal enquiry Robert C. Solomon
6. Bolzano, Brentano and Meinong: three Austrian realists Peter Simons
7. Vorsprung durch Logik: the German analytic tradition Hans-Johann Glock
8. German philosophy of mathematics from Gauss to Hilbert Donald Gillies
9. The revolution of Moore and Russell: a very British coup? David Bell
10. Husserl's concept of being: from phenomenology to metaphysics Stephen Priest
11. Frege and the later Wittgenstein P. M. S. Hacker
12. Otto Neurath, the Vienna Circle and the Austrian tradition Thomas E. Uebel
13. Does the nothing noth? Michael Inwood
14. Reactionary modernism David E. Cooper
15. Adorno on disenchantment: the scepticism of enlightened reason Jay Bernstein
16. Habermas, science and modernity Friedel Weinert
17. German philosophy today: between idealism, romanticism and pragmatism Andrew Bowie
18. The career of aesthetics in German thinking Martin Seel
19. Hermeneutic and analytic philosophy: two complementary versions of the linguistic turn? Jürgen Habermas
Index of names.

Subject Areas: History of Western philosophy [HPC]