Introduction to German Philosophy

From Kant to Habermas
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7456-2571-3
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Introduction to German Philosophy is the only book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present.
- the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present.
- offers an accessible introduction to the work, among others, of Kant, Fichte, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Gadamer, and Habermas.
- considers how German philosophy reacts to revolutionary changes in modern science, society, and culture;
- ideal for anyone wanting to know more about the role of the German tradition within philosophy and literature as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowie, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Introduction.

1. The Kantian Revolution.

2. The Discovery of Language: Hamann to Herder.

3. German Idealism: From Fichte to early Schelling.

4. German Idealism: Hegel.

5. Critiques of Idealism I: the early Romantics to Feuerbach.

6. Critiques of Idealism II: Marx.

7. Critiques of Iddealism III: Nietzsche.

8. The “Linguistic Turn”.

9. Phenomenology.

10. Heidegger: Being and Hermeneutics.

11. “Critical Theory”.

Conclusion.

Glossary.

References.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bowie is Chair of German and Founding Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London.