The Cambridge Companion To German Idealism

DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors This updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling are all discussed in detail, along with contemporaries such as Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schopenhauer, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well known in the English-speaking world. Leading scholars trace and explore the unifying themes of German Idealism and discuss its relationship to Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. This second edition offers an updated bibliography and includes three entirely new chapters, which address aesthetic reflection and human nature, the chemical revolution after Kant, and organism and system in German Idealism. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will appeal to a wide range of interested readers in philosophy, literature, theology, German studies, and the history of ideas. Includes three new chapters from experts in the field, with the other chapters and the bibliography updated The book will appeal to students and scholars of all levels, providing incisive and detailed discussion as well as presenting a comprehensive look at this major period as a whole Explores the roles of key figures including Kant, Hegel, and Fichte alongside the contributions of lesser-known philosophers