Introduction to German Philosophy
From Kant to Habermas
1. Auflage Oktober 2003
304 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Introduction to German Philosophy is the only book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present.
* the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present.
* offers an accessible introduction to the work, among others, of Kant, Fichte, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Gadamer, and Habermas.
* considers how German philosophy reacts to revolutionary changes in modern science, society, and culture;
* ideal for anyone wanting to know more about the role of the German tradition within philosophy and literature as a whole.
Introduction.
1. The Kantian Revolution.
2. The Discovery of Language: Hamann to Herder.
3. German Idealism: From Fichte to early Schelling.
4. German Idealism: Hegel.
5. Critiques of Idealism I: the early Romantics to
Feuerbach.
6. Critiques of Idealism II: Marx.
7. Critiques of Iddealism III: Nietzsche.
8. The "Linguistic Turn".
9. Phenomenology.
10. Heidegger: Being and Hermeneutics.
11. "Critical Theory".
Conclusion.
Glossary.
References.
Index
philosophy for English-speaking readers is the masterly manner in
which Andrew Bowie manages to fairly structure an abundance of
illuminating ideas." Jürgen Habermas
"Bowie provides an excellent overview which will be useful for
general readers, students and specialists." The Philosophers'
Magazine
"Where Bowie really shines ... is in introducing "minor" figures
such as Herder and Hamann and showing how they prefigure the ideas
of Schelling, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic
thinkers such as John McDowell and Robert Brandom. His chapter on
the Early Romantics is equally clear and far-reaching." Times
Higher Education Supplement
"This is probably the most knowledgeable presentation in English
of the history of the German contribution to so-called continental
philosophy from Herder and Kant to Gadamer and Habermas. Andrew
Bowie is an exceptional scholar of German Romanticism and Idealism
as well as of the hermeneutic tradition and critical theory of the
twentieth century." Manfred Frank,
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
"This book has remarkable breadth. Not only does it cover a
larger period of German thought than other similar books, but it
also has a genuine appreciation for so-called
"second-rank" figures (e.g., Herder, Schlegel,
Schelling) and for a range of issues concerning aesthetics and
society that go far beyond the narrow focus on epistemology and
metaphysics that one typically finds in philosophical overviews."
Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame
