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| AUTONOMY
AND COMMUNITY:
Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy. Jane Kneller and Sidney Axinn, editors. |
"The
topic of this book is significant for contemporary social and
political philosophy.
The book could be a main text for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on contemporary social philosophy. It could also be used as a supplementary text for courses and seminars on Kant's practical philosophy." -- Jeffrey Edwards, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| The
Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
Edited by Karl Ameriks. Contributors: Karl Ameriks, Frederick Beiser, Paul Guyer, Allen Wood, Daniel Dahlstrom, Paul Franks, Rolf Peter Horstmann, Charles Larmore, Terry Pinkard, Robert Pippin, Günter Zöller, Dieter Sturma, Andrew Bowie. |
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling are all discussed in detail, together with a number of their contemporaries, such as Hölderlin and Schleiermacher, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well known in the English-speaking world. The essays in the volume trace and explore the unifying themes of German Idealism, and discuss their relationship to Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will appeal to a wide range of readers in philosophy, German studies, theology, literature, and the history of ideas. |
| THE
MODERN SUBJECT:
Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy. Karl Ameriks and Dieter Sturma, editors. |
Provides a
thorough background study of the postmodern assault on the
standpoint of the subject as a foundation for philosophy, and
assesses what remains today of the philosophy of subjectivity.
"I very much like the way in which this work bridges the so-called 'continental' and 'analytic' traditions within philosophy, while at the same time calling attention to figures that deserve more attention in both traditions. It represents an important contribution to the historiography of the early post-Kantian era. Furthermore, it is not just another antiquarian study of some figures that might be of limited interest to historians of philosophy. Rather, it adds an interesting voice to the discussion of 'subjectivity' within the German and Anglo-American contexts." -- Manfred Kuehn, Purdue University |
| Friedrich
von Schlegel was born in Dresden, Saxony.
He was apprenticed to a banker in Leipzig in 1788. In 1790-91 he studied at the University of Göttingen and then for three years at the University of Leipzig. |
Schlegel moved to Dresden in 1794 and to Berlin 1797. His stay at Leipzig laid foundations for his humanistic education. He was especially interested in Greek antiquity, believing that Greek philosophy and culture were essential to complete education. German writer, critic and philosopher, contemporary of Goethe, Schiller and Novalis, a pioneer in comparative Indo-European linguistics and comparative philology. Schlegel influenced deeply early German Romantic Movement - he is generally held the person who first established the term romantisch in literary context. That which is romantic, Schlegel said, depicts emotional matter in an imaginative form. He stressed the importance of subjective and spiritual elements in the novel. |
| Romantic Irony | A volume in the ICLA Comparative Literary History Series, Ed. by Frederick Garber, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1988, ISBN 963 05 4844 5 |
| Paper Abstracts | Music and Literature in German Romanticism Conference, University College Dublin, 8 - 10 December 2000, Paper Abstracts |
| German Romantic Literary Theory by Ernst Behler, Binding: Hardcover, 364 pages. Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Published Date: 05/01/1993, List: USD $74.95, ISBN: 0521325854 | The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. A view of the literary work and the artistic process developed that diverged sharply from the dominant classicist understanding of aesthetics and poetics. It recognized the infinite changeablility of genres, and asserted the rights of genius and creative imagination. Professor Behler provides a new account of this crucial movement, illustrating each theoretical topic with close reference to a characteristic work by a major writer of the period. |
| Novalis:
Signs of Revolution.
by Wm. Arctander O'Brien Durham & London Duke U P, 1995. 374pp. ISBN 0-8223-1519-X. US $18.95. |
The death in 1801 of Friedrich von Hardenberg, better known under the pen name Novalis, marked the end of an intellectual career that lasted less than ten years. Despite this short span of productivity, yielding only eighty published pages during his lifetime, Novalis is indisputably one of the most fascinating and intellectually daring figures of early German Romanticism. This is no small distinction in a movement that is itself characterized by philosophical rigor combined with eclecticism and a decidedly anti-disciplinary bent. Until recently, the achievements of the early German Romantics have been obscured because of the tendency to situate them within a reactionary current marking German thought in the wake of the French Revolution. It is only recently that a reassessment of the movement, particularly in terms of how it anticipates questions central to contemporary critical theory, has taken place. Wm. Arctander O'Brien's Novalis: Signs of Revolution, the most comprehensive study of the author available in English, contributes to a growing body of criticism on early German Romanticism that has reached international proportions (including the work of Philippee Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy in France, Manfred Frank and Norbert Bolz in Germany, and Geza von Molnar, Ernst Behler, and Alice Kuzniar in the United States.) ASSENKA OKSILOFF, New York University / Copyright 1998 Arachne, Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne |
| "What is Enlightenment?"
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present. |
In recent
years, critics from across the political and philosophical spectrum
have condemned the Enlightenment for its complicity with any number
of present-day social and cultural maladies. It has rarely been
noticed, however, that at the end of the Enlightenment, German
thinkers had already begun a scrutiny of their age so wide-ranging
that there are few subsequent criticisms that had not been
considered by the close of the eighteenth century. Among the
concerns these essays address are the importance of freedom of
expression, the relationship between faith and reason, and the
responsibility of the Enlightenment for revolutions.
Included are translations of works by such well-known figures as Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Johann Georg Hamann, as well as essays by thinkers whose work is virtually unknown to American readers. These eighteenth-century texts are set against interpretive essays by such major twentieth-century figures as Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault. ABOUT THE EDITOR: James Schmidt is Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University. He is author of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism (1985). |
| Kant's System of Perspectives (and related articles) | "Palmquist introduces what he calls 'the principle of perspective,' as well as a system of graphic models.... By means of graphic models, Palmquist shows how he envisions the principle of perspective to function as a unifying and explanatory key to Kant's system as a whole.... On this reading Kant becomes primarily a kind of visionary. Thus one labors over the intricacies of Palmquist's interpretation (including extremely thorough documentation ...) only to be told ultimately, as it seems, that Kant believed the All is One!" --Susan F. Krantz (St. Anselm College) The Review of Metaphysics 48.2 (December 1994), pp.419-421 |
| Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804), German philosopher, considered by many the most influential thinker of modern times ... | Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804), German philosopher, considered by many the most influential thinker of modern times ...Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to our site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta. Here is a hyperlink to the Microsoft Encarta home page. http://www.encarta.msn.com |
| Immanuel Kant, widely acknowledged to have been one of the greatest of all philosophers ... | ... was born in Königsburg, East Prussia. At the age of 8 he entered the Collegium Fridiricianum, a pietistic Latin school; he remained there for 8 1/2 years and then entered the University of Königsberg in 1740 to study philosophy, mathematics, and physics. In 1756 he was granted a degree and made a lecturer, and in 1770 he became a professor. ... |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher / 1768-1834 / The German preacher and philosopher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher is often called the leading 19th-century theologian of the Protestant church. | Schleiermacher was born on November 21, 1768, in Breslau, Lower Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland). Despite his being the son of a Reformed clergyman, Schleiermacher studied under the Moravian Brethren (Herrnhuters), gaining from them an appreciation for the Latin and Greek classics and a strong sense of religious life. He found the teaching of the Herrnhuters too restrictive, however, because the faculty refused to lecture on current intellectual trends. In 1787 he entered the University of Halle, where he studied the philosophies of Aristotle and Immanuel Kant ... |
| Excepts
from The Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 [B edition]
I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge (Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.) |
That all our
knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is
it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into
exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses,
and partly of themselves produce representations, partly rouse our
powers of understanding into activity, to compare to connect, or to
separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous
impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience?
In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to
experience, but begins with it.
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. |
| Romanticism | Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism. The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect. In addition, romanticism was a philosophical revolt against rationalism. |
| Romanticism / Philosophical
The idea of Romanticism is at once indispensable and embarrassing to cultural historians. |
They cannot do without it; something is needed to distinguish Pope from Wordsworth, David from Delacroix, Handel from Beethoven. But they are acutely worried by the problem of defining it, which they create for themselves. Like most interesting general terms applying to human affairs, and unlike 'prime number' or 'nitrous oxide', it is not definable in a short formula made up of precisely demarcated terms. That is not necessarily a fault. Romanticism is a cluster of attitudes and preferences each of which is usually to be found with a good number of the others and, in extreme cases, with most, or even all, of them ... |
| This is my on-line tribute to Casper David Friedrich, an artist from the 19th century. | Having failed to find any decent Friedrich page on the web I've put this one up, it is not a representative collection of his works as it consists mainly of my favorites (which seem to be missing from the other Friedrich pages - he has painted many different themes and it seems the themes I like are not the popular ones). |
| This is the beginning of an online collection of Novalis information. | This is the beginning of an online collection of Novalis information. If you have text you can make available online, please mail it to telical@eskimo.com. |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte is one of the major
figures in German philosophy in the period between Kant and Hegel.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a non-profit organization run by the editors. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, and technical advisors. |
Initially considered one of Kant's most talented followers, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) developed his own system of transcendental idealism, the Wissenschaftslehre, which sought to work out in great detail Kant's insight that finite rational beings such as ourselves are to be interpreted in terms of both theoretical and practical reason. Through technical philosophical works and popular writings Fichte exercised great influence over his contemporaries, especially during his years at the University of Jena. His influence waned towards the end of his life, and Hegel's subsequent dominance in German philosophy relegated Fichte to the status of a transitional figure whose thought helped to explain the development of German idealism from Kant's Critical philosophy to Hegel's philosophy of Spirit. Today, however, Fichte is rightly seen as an important philosopher in his own right, as a thinker who carried on the Kantian legacy of transcendental philosophy in a highly original form. |
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