The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism

This book, first published in 2000, offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to the classical period of German philosophy.

Karl Ameriks (Edited by)

9780521651783, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 November 2000

324 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.619 kg

'An invaluable and original examination of unifying themes of German Idealism.' Semcoop.com

The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, first published in 2000, offers a comprehensive, penetrating and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling are all discussed in detail, together with a number of their contemporaries, such as Hölderlin and Schleiermacher, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well known in the English-speaking world. The essays in the volume trace and explore the unifying themes of German Idealism, and discuss their relationship to Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will appeal to a wide range of readers in philosophy, German studies, theology, literature, and the history of ideas.

List of contributors
Introduction: interpreting German Idealism Karl Ameriks
1. The Enlightenment and Idealism Frederick Beiser
2. Absolute Idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism Paul Guyer
3. Kant's practical philosophy Allen Wood
4. The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder and Schiller Daniel Dahlstrom
5. All or nothing: systematicity and nihilism in Jacobi, Reinhold and Maimon Paul Franks
6. The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling Rolf Peter Horstmann
7. Hölderlin and Novalis Charles Larmore
8. Hegel's Phenomenology and Logic: an overview Terry Pinkard
9. Hegel's practical philosophy: the realization of freedom Robert Pippin
10. German realism: the self-limitation of Idealism in Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer Günter Zöller
11. Politics and the new mythology: the turn to late Romanticism Dieter Sturma
12. German Idealism and the arts Andrew Bowie
13. The legacy of Idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx and Kierkegaard Karl Ameriks
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]