TitleThe Cambridge history of philosophy in the nineteenth century (1790-1870) / [edited by] Allen W. Wood, Songsuk Susan Hahn
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript xvi, 992 p. ; 24 cm

SUMMARY

"The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-seven chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the material topically. After a brief editor's introduction, it begins with three chapters surveying the background of nineteenth century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two on nature and natural science, five on mind and language, including psychology, the human sciences and aesthetics, four on ethics, three on religion, seven on society, including chapters on the French Revolution, the decline of natural right, political economy, and social discontent, and three on history, dealing with historical method, speculative theories of history and the history of philosophy. The essays are framed by an editor's introduction and a bibliography"-- Provided by publisher


CONTENT

The kantian aftermath: reaction and revolution in German philosophy -- The social conditions of philosophy in the nineteenth century -- The unity of reason and the diversity of life: the idea of a system in Kant and in nineteenth-century philosphy -- Attempts to rethink logic -- Some developments in the philosophy of mathematics, 1790-1870 -- Conceptions of the natural world, 1790-1870 -- Natural sciences -- Psychology -- Language -- The emergence of the human sciences from the moral sciences -- The beautiful and the good: aesthetics, 1790-1870 -- Autonomy and the self as the basis of morality -- Ethics and the social good -- Moral epistemology, 1788-1870 -- Antimoralism -- Challenges to religion in the nineteenth century -- Three types of speculative religion -- The defense of traditional religion, 1790-1870 -- Philosophical responses to the French revolution -- The decline of natural right -- Conceptions of society in nineteenth-century social thought -- Nineteenth-century political economy -- The nation-state -- Nineteenth-century ideals: self-culture and the religion of humanity -- Social dissatisfaction and social change -- Philosophizing about history in the nineteenth century: Zusammenhang and the "progressive method" in German historical scholarship -- Philosophy of history: the German tradition from Herder to Marx -- The history of philosophy


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Modern -- 19th century

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