The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

by Forster, Michael N.; Gjesdal, Kristin

• ISBN13: 9780199696543
• ISBN10: 0199696543
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is the first collective critical study of this important period in intellectual history. The volume is divided into four parts. The first part explores individual philosophers, including Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche, amongst other great thinkers of the period. The second addresses key philosophical movements: Idealism, Romanticism, Neo-Kantianism, and Existentialism. The essays in the third part engage with different areas of philosophy that received particular attention at this time, including philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of history, and hermeneutics. Finally, the contributors turn to discuss central philosophical topics, from skepticism to mat-erialism, from dialectics to ideas of historical and cultural Otherness, and from the reception of antiquity to atheism. Written by a team of leading experts, this Handbook will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area and will lead the direction of future research.

Author Biography

Michael N. Forster is currently Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He taught for 28 years at the University of Chicago, where he served for 10 years as chairman of the Philosophy Department and was Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor. His historical work is on ancient philosophy and especially German philosophy, his systematic work mainly on epistemology and philosophy of language. He has published numerous articles and 7 books.

Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She works in the areas of German Idealism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. Her work has appeared in journals such as Kant-Studien, Hegel-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and British Journal of the History of Philosophy. Her book Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2009.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
Philosophers
1. Fichte (1762-1814), Gunter Zoller
2. Schleiermacher (1768-1834), Andreas Arndt
3. Hegel (1770-1831), Paul Redding
4. Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829), Dalia Nassar
5. Schelling (1775-1854), Markus Gabriel
6. Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Sebastian Gardner
7. Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Michelle Kosch
8. Marx (1818-1883), Michael Quante
9. Dilthey (1833-1911), Rudolf A. Makkreel
10. Nietzsche (1844-1900), Brian Leiter
11. Frege (1848-1925), Patricia A. Blanchette
Philosophical Movements
12. Idealism, Terry Pinkard
13. Romanticism, Fred Rush
14. Neo-Kantianism, Frederick Beiser
15. Existentialism, Katia Hay
Areas of Philosophy
16. Philosophy of Nature, Alison Stone
17. Philosophy of Science, Frederick Gregory
18. Philosophy of Mind, Barbara Gail Montero
19. Philosophy of Language, Hans-Johann Glock
20. Logic, Graham Priest
21. Hermeneutics, Andrew Bowie
22. Philosophy of History, Sally Sedgwick
23. Philosophy of Education, Lina Steiner
24. Ethics, Paul Katsafanas
25. Aesthetics, Paul Guyer
26. Political Philosophy, Jean-Francois Kervegan
27. Feminism, Jane Kneller
Philosophical Topics
28. Skepticism and Epistemology, Ulrich Schlosser
29. Metaphysics and Critique of Metaphysics, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
30. Methodology of the Sciences, Lydia Patton
31. Materialism, Kurt Bayertz
32. Perspectivism, Songsuk Susan Hahn
33. Dialectics, Claudia Wirsing
34. Evolution, Christian Spahn
35. Bildung, Kristin Gjesdal
36. Receptions of Eastern Thought, Douglas L. Berger
37. The Other, Michael Mack
38. Receptions of Antiquity, Jessica N. Berry
39. Historicism, John H. Zammito
40. Ideology, Michael N. Forster
41. Atheism, Todd Gooch