The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses, and Legacy

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The German Idealism Reader is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel - and including those thinkers often considered as secondary, but who are also crucial for understanding of this period, the Reader presents an influential era in all its philosophical complexity. Through its broad coverage of philosophers and their texts, it offers a complete dynamic picture of the intellectual period and features: - Selections from key texts by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel - Readings from Reinhold, Schiller, Maimon, Schulze, Jacobi, Hoelderlin, and Novalis - Responses to and critiques of German idealist thought by late nineteenth century thinkers, such as Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche - Selections extending beyond the typical focus on epistemology and metaphysics to include ethics, religion, society, and art - A general introduction and timeline, together with a chronology and bibliography to each thinker and introductory overviews to both thinkers and text With readings carefully selected to illustrate thinkers in dialogue with each other, The German Idealism Reader provides a better appreciation of the philosophical discussions central to the period. This is essential reading for all students of German idealism and the nineteenth-century German and Continental philosophies, as well as to those studying the important movements and periods of European intellectual history.

Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA. She is the Editor of the journal Russian Studies in Philosophy

This is a fine and very welcome collection of texts by the most important representatives and critics of German Idealism. It covers an impressive range of topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics, and will enable both students and general readers to discover the extraordinary richness and profundity of German Idealist thought. * Stephen Houlgate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. * This an outstanding collection, with an unusually wide range of of well-chosen selections from Reinhold, Novalis, and Hoelderlin as well as all the major systematicians. This is a very useful volume for anyone teaching or researching in the area of German Idealism * Karl Ameriks, McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy (emeritus), University of Notre Dame, USA * The German Idealism Reader provides an excellent pathway into this fascinating and vital philosophical tradition. The well-chosen selection of accessible translations from an unusually wide range of authors is accompanied by helpful introductions to guide the reader through the twists and turns of one of modernity's defining cultural movements. * Paul Redding, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Australia *