Overview :This is the first full study in English of the German historicist tradition. Frederick C. Beiser surveys the major German thinkers on histor... Read More
Overview :After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination acro... Read More
Overview :Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the two most important idealist philosophers in Germany after Hegel: Adolf Trendelenburg and Rudolf ... Read More
Overview :In this ground-breaking work, Frederick Beiser argues that Georg Simmel was one of the foremost yet overlooked philosophers of the late nine... Read More
Overview :Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essenti... Read More
Overview :Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half-when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. ... Read More
Overview :Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also... Read More
Overview :The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in ... Read More
Overview :Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eig... Read More
Overview :The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part because they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy and ... Read More
Overview :The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. ... Read More
Overview :One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history a... Read More
Overview :Though little known today, Johann Friedrich Herbart was one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. A... Read More
Overview :The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics contains all the essential political writings of Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher and... Read More