Routledge History of Philosophy. The Age of German Idealism

Kathleen M. Higgins, Robert C. Solomon0415056047, 9780415056045, 0203030613, 9780203030615, 9780203065525

The turn of the nineteenth century marked a rich and exciting explosion of philosophical energy and talent. The enormity of the revolution set off in philosophy by Immanuel Kant was comparable, by Kant’s own estimation, with the Copernican Revolution that ended the Middle Ages. The movement he set in motion, the fast-moving and often cantankerous dialectic of `German Idealism,’ inspired some of the most creative philosophers in modern times, including G.W.F Hegel and Arthur Schopenhauer as well as those who reacted against Kant–Marx and Kierkegaard, for example. This volume traces the emergence of German Idealism from Kant and his predecessors through the first half of the nineteenth century, ending with the irrationalism of Kierkegaard. It provides a broad, scholarly introduction to this period for students of philosophy and related disciplines, as well as some original interpretations of these authors. Also included is a glossary of technical terms as well as a chronological table of

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
General editors preface……Page 8
Notes on contributors……Page 11
Chronology……Page 14
Introduction……Page 28
1 From Leibniz to Kant……Page 32
2 Kant’s Copernican revolution……Page 67
3 Kant’s moral and political philosophy……Page 95
4 Kant: Critique of Judgement……Page 130
5 Fichte and Schelling: the Jena period……Page 165
6 Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit……Page 208
7 Hegel’s logic and philosophy of mind……Page 243
8 Hegel, spirit, and politics……Page 281
9 The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx……Page 317
10 Arthur Schopenhauer……Page 357
11 Kierkegaard’s speculative despair……Page 390
Glossary……Page 423
Index……Page 431