A Short History of German Philosophy /

A Short History of German Philosophy / / Vittorio Hösle.

This concise but comprehensive book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hösle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on othe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Hösle, Vittorio,
TeilnehmendeR:
Rendall, Steven.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's Note
  • Preface to the English Translation
  • 1. Does German Philosophy Have a History? And Has There Ever Been a "German Spirit"?
  • 2. The Birth of God in the Soul: The Beginnings of German-language Philosophizing in the Middle Ages in the Work of Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa's Consummation and Demolition of Medieval Thought
  • 3. The Change in the Philosophical Situation Brought about by the Reformation: Paracelsus's New Natural Philosophy and the "No" in Jakob Böhme's God
  • 4. Only the Best Is Good Enough for God: Leibniz's Synthesis of Scholasticism and the New Science
  • 5. The German Ethical Revolution: Immanuel Kant
  • 6. The Human Sciences as a Religious Duty: Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller, the Early Romantics, and Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • 7. The Longing for a System: German Idealism
  • 8. The Revolt against Christian Dogmatics: Schopenhauer's Discovery of the Indian World
  • 9. The Revolt against the Bourgeois World: Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx
  • 10. The Revolt against Universalistic Morals: Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 11. The Exact Sciences as a Challenge and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy: Frege, the Viennese and Berlin Circles, Wittgenstein
  • 12. The Search for a Foundation of the Human Sciences and the Social Sciences in Neo- Kantianism and Dilthey, and Husserl's Exploration of Consciousness
  • 13. Is Philosophy Partly to Blame for the German Catastrophe? Heidegger between Fundamental Ontology and History of Being
  • 14. National Socialist Anthropology and Political Philosophy: Arnold Gehlen and Carl Schmitt
  • 15. The Federal Republic's Adaptation to Western European Normality: Gadamer, the Two Frankfurt Schools, and Hans Jonas
  • 16. Why We Cannot Assume That There Will Continue to Be a German Philosophy
  • Index of Names

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