TitleThe Routledge companion to nineteenth century philosophy / edited by Dean Moyar
Imprint Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013
Descript xxvii, 929 p. ; 26 cm

SUMMARY

"The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Divided into seven parts and including thirty chapters written by leading international scholars, the Companion examines and assesses the central topics, themes, and philosophers of the nineteenth century, presenting the first comprehensive picture of the period in a single volume. The volume is essential reading for students of philosophy, and for anyone interested in this period in related disciplines such as politics, history, literature, and religion."-- book jacket


CONTENT

Self-consciousness, system, dialectic -- Epistemology in German idealism -- The philosophy of nature of Kant, Schelling and Hegel -- The moral theory of German idealism -- The political theory of Kant, Fichte and Hegel -- The aesthetics of Schelling and Hegel -- After Hegel: the actualization of philosophy in practice -- Karl Marx -- Tocqueville, social science and democracy -- Early German romanticism: the challenge of philosophizing -- Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard and German idealism -- Nietzsche -- Bergson -- Comte's positivist dream, our post-positivist burden -- Darwin's philosophical impact -- The philosophy of race in the nineteenth century -- Psychology and philosophy -- Dilthey and the neo-Kantians: the dispute over the status of the human and cultural sciences -- Mill: logic and metaphysics -- Mill's consequentialism -- British idealism: theoretical philosophy -- British idealism: practical philosophy and social responsibility -- C.S. Peirce -- William James -- Josiah Royce -- Post-Kantian logical radicalism -- Franz Brentano -- Gottlob Frege -- Edmund Husserl


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Modern -- 19th century

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