Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment and idealism
- 2 Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism
- 3 Kant’s practical philosophy
- 4 The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller
- 5 All or nothing
- 6 The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling
- 7 Hölderlin and Novalis
- 8 Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic
- 9 Hegel’s practical philosophy
- 10 German realism
- 11 Politics and the New Mythology
- 12 German Idealism and the arts
- 13 The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
interpreting German Idealism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment and idealism
- 2 Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism
- 3 Kant’s practical philosophy
- 4 The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller
- 5 All or nothing
- 6 The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling
- 7 Hölderlin and Novalis
- 8 Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic
- 9 Hegel’s practical philosophy
- 10 German realism
- 11 Politics and the New Mythology
- 12 German Idealism and the arts
- 13 The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The idealist achievement
The period of German Idealism constitutes a cultural phenomenon whose stature and influence has been frequently compared to nothing less than the golden age of Athens. For this reason the era from the 1770s into the 1840s that we tend to call “the age of German Idealism” is often designated in Germany simply as the period of “classical German philosophy.” This designation is meant to indicate a level of preeminent achievement rather than to characterize a specific style or content. It thus bypasses issues such as how philosophers of this era match up with the division in German literature between classicism and romanticism, and how strong a distinction is to be made between the “Critical” or “transcendental” idealism of Kant and the so-called “absolute” idealism that culminated in the work of the three most famous philosophers who came after him: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.
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- The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism , pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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