German Philosophy

A Very Short Introduction
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-956925-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 110 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 122 g

Reihe: Very Short Introductions

Examines Germany's transition from a traditional feudal society to a modern, industrialised society, exploring how philosophy relates to the social and historical developments
Discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the most enlightening responses to the problems of 'modernity'
Covers all the significant thinkers of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, but also includes some of the lesser known philosophers of the time
Highlights the rather neglected ideas of early German Romantic philosophy, including the works of Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Schleirmacher, and Schelling
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German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible. Knowledge of German philosophy is, then, an indispensable prerequisite of theoretically informed study in the humanities as a whole.

German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the most revealing responses to the problems of 'modernity'. The rise of the modern natural sciences and the related decline of religion raises a series of questions, which recur throughout German philosophy, concerning the relationships between knowledge and faith, reason and emotion, and scientific, ethical, and artistic ways of seeing the world.

There are also many significant philosophers who are generally neglected in most existing English-language treatments of German philosophy, which tend to concentrate on the canonical figures. This Very Short Introduction will include reference to these thinkers and suggests how they can be used to question more familiar German philosophical thought.

Zielgruppe

General readers, students of philosophy, cultural studies, theology, modern languages, English, history, music, sociology, politics, and natural scientists with an interest in philosophical issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowie, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Kant and Modernity
2: The Linguistic Turn
3: German Idealism
4: 'Early Romantic' Philosophy
5: Marx
6: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and the 'Death of God'
7: Phenomenology, and the second 'Linguistic Turn'
8: 'Critical Theory'
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bowie, Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London