Heine: 'On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany'

by Edited by Terry Pinkard , Translated by Howard Pollack-Milgate

• ISBN13: 9780521861298
• ISBN10: 0521861292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume presents a colourful and entertaining overview of German intellectual history by a central figure in its development. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), famous poet, journalist, and political exile, studied with Hegel and was personally acquainted with the leading figures of the most important generation of German writers and philosophers. In his groundbreaking History he discusses the history of religion, philosophy, and literature in Germany up to his time, seen through his own highly opinionated, politically aware, philosophically astute, and always ironic perspective. This work, and other writings focussing especially on Heine??'s rethinking of Hegel??'s philosophy, are presented here in a new translation by Howard Pollack-Milgate. The volume also includes an introduction by Terry Pinkard which examines Heine both in relation to Hegel and Nietzsche and as a thinker in his own right.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology	p. xxxiii
Further reading	p. xxxviii
Translator's note	p. xl
On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany
Preface to the first edition	p. 3
Preface to the second edition	p. 4
	p. 9
	p. 42
	p. 76
Other writings
from a letter to Moses Moser in Berlin, May 23, 1823	p. 121
from The Songbook (1827), "Return home"	p. 122
from The Songbook (1827), "North sea: second cycle"	p. 124
from Lucca, the City (in Travel Pictures, Part IV, 1831)	p. 127
from the Introduction to "Kahldorf on the Nobility in Letters to Count M. von Moltke" (1831)	p. 130
from The Romantic School (1835)	p. 136
from New Poems (1844), "Poems of the Times," "Doctrine"	p. 196
from the Letters about Germany (1844)	p. 197
from the "Afterword" to Romanzero (1851)	p. 198
from Confessions (1854)	p. 203
Index	p. 216
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