A Short History of German Philosophy
- Princeton Princeton University Press 2017
- 275p
includes index and biblioraphy
1 Does German philosophy have a History ? And has there ever been a German Spirit ? ...1 2 The birth of god in the Soul : The beginnings of German language philosophizing in the middle ages in the work of meister eckhart and Nicholas of cusa`s consummation and demolition of medieval thought ...13 3 The change in the philosophical situation brought about by the reformation : Paracelsus1s new natural philosophy aND THE NO IN jAKOB BOHME`S God ...29 4 Only the best is Good enough for God : Leibniz`s synthesis of scholacticism and the New science ...39 5 The German Ethical revolution : Immanuel Kant ...57 6 The human science as a religious duty : Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller, the early romantics and withelm von humboldt ....82 7 The Longing for a system : German Idealism ...97 8 The revolt against christian dogmatics : Schopenhauer`s discovery of the indian world ...129 9 The revolt against the bourgeois world : Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl MARX ...139 10 The revolt against universalitic morals : Friedrich Nietzsche ...156 11 The exact sciences as a challenge and the rise of analytic philosophy : Frege, the Viennese and Berlin circles, Wittgenstein ...176 12 The search for a foundation of the human sciences and the social sciences in Neo-Kantianism and dilthey, and Husserl`s exploration of consciousness ...193 13 Is philosophy partly to Blame for the German catastrophe : Heidegger between fundamental ontology and the History of being ...217 14 National socialist anthropology and political philosophy : Arnold Gehlen and Carl schmitt ...232 15 The federal Repunlic`s Adaptation to western European Normality : Gardamer the ywo frankfurt schools, and Hans Jonas ...241 16 Why we cannot assume that there will continue to be a German Philosophy ...263