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Book SynopsisThe 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,
Trade ReviewThis 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 Hölderlin 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 *
Table of ContentsPreface: 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 (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. SØREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD (1813-1855) Introduction Chronology of Søren 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
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