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German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction [#233]
German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction [#233]
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  • 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

  
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.

Index: 

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

About the author: 

Andrew Bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published very widely in the areas of modern German philosophy, literature, and music. His previous publications include Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche (Manchester University Press, 1993); Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction (Routledge, 1993), and Introduction to German Philosophy from Kant to Habermas (Polity, 2003).

Product details

ISBN : 9780199569250

Author: 
Andrew Bowie
Pages
152 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
May 2010
Series
Very Short Introductions
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German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction [#233]

German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction [#233]

German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction [#233]