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  • Hegel

    The Philosopher of Freedom

    by Klaus Vieweg ...
    Translated by Sophia Kottman ...
    A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked from the credo: To philosophize is to learn to live freely. While he was slow and cautious in the development of his philosophy, his intellectual ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Kant: A Biography

    by Manfred Kuehn ...
    This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view ... Read more

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  • Weltschmerz

    Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900

    by Frederick C. Beiser ...
    Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. Frederick C. Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer ... Read more

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  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

    The Hidden Dialogue

    by Heinrich Meier ...
    Translated by J. Harvey Lomax ...
    Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an ... Read more

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  • The Topography of Modernity

    Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

    by Elliott Schreiber ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful) (1788). In this ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Schelling versus Hegel

    From German Idealism to Christian Metaphysics

    by John Laughland ...
    In tracing Friedrich von Schelling's long philosophical development, John Laughland examines in particular his disentanglement from German idealism and his reaction, later in life, against Hegel. He argues that this story has relevance beyond the facts themselves and that it explains much about the direction philosophy took in the century between the French Revolution and the rise of Communism. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Afterness

    Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

    by Gerhard Richter ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Romantic Imperative

    The Concept of Early German Romanticism

    by Frederick C. Beiser ...
    The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part because they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy and the arts must be kept separate. Indeed, as the literary component of Romanticism has been studied and celebrated in recent years, its philosophical aspect has receded from view. This book, by one of the most respected scholars of the Romantic era, offers an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Light in Germany

    Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

    by T.J. Reed ...
    A reassessment of the value of Germany's cultural contributions during the Enlightenment.Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In Light in Germany, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, ... Read more

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  • Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Ludwig Siep ...
    Series series Modern European Philosophy
    Hegel only published five books in his lifetime, and among them the Phenomenology of Spirit emerges as the most important but also perhaps the most difficult and complex. In this book Ludwig Siep follows the path from Hegel's early writings on religion, love and spirit to the milestones of his 'Jena period'. He shows how the themes of the Phenomenology first appeared in an earlier work, The ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Herder

    Philosophy and Anthropology

    Edited by Anik Waldow, Nigel DeSouza ...
    J. G. Herder is enjoying a renaissance in philosophy and across the humanities. This book offers important new insights into the complexity and depth of his thought. This unprecedented collection fills a gap in the secondary literature, highlighting the genuinely innovative and distinctive nature of Herder's philosophy. Not only does Herder offer highly original answers to important philosophical ... Read more

    $69.99 USD