German Idealism Reader

<p><i>The German Idealism Reader</i> is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant Fichte Schelling and Hegel - and including those thinkers often considered as secondary but who are also crucial for understanding of this period the Reader presents an influential era in all its philosophical complexity. <p/>Through its broad coverage of philosophers and their texts it offers a complete dynamic picture of the intellectual period and features: <br> - Selections from key texts by Kant Fichte Schelling and Hegel <br> - Readings from Reinhold Schiller Maimon Schulze Jacobi Hölderlin and Novalis <br> - Responses to and critiques of German idealist thought by late nineteenth century thinkers such as Schopenhauer Feuerbach Marx Kierkegaard and Nietzsche<br> - Selections extending beyond the typical focus on epistemology and metaphysics to include ethics religion society and art<br> - A general introduction and timeline together with a chronology and bibliography to each thinker and introductory overviews to both thinkers and text <p/>With readings carefully selected to illustrate thinkers in dialogue with each other <i>The German Idealism Reader</i> provides a better appreciation of the philosophical discussions central to the period. This is essential reading for all students of German idealism and the nineteenth-century German and Continental philosophies as well as to those studying the important movements and periods of European intellectual history.</p>