Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze - Softcover

Beiser, Frederick C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198777558 ISBN 13: 9780198777557

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the two most important idealist philosophers in Germany after Hegel: Adolf Trendelenburg and Rudolf Lotze. Trendelenburg and Lotze dominated philosophy in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They were important influences on the generation after them, on Frege, Brentano, Dilthey, Kierkegaard, Cohen, Windelband and Rickert. Late German Idealism is the first book on this significant but neglected chapter in European philosophical history. It provides a general introduction to every aspect of the philosophy of Trendelenburg and Lotze--their logic, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics--but it is also a study of their intellectual development, from their youth until their death. Their philosophy is placed in the context of their lives and culture.

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About the Author:

Frederick C. Beiser, Syracuse University, New York

Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the US, and studied in the UK at Oriel and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford. He also studied in Germany and lived in Berlin for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung. He has taught in universities across the US, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Beiser is the author of Schiller as Philosopher (OUP, 2005), Diotima's Children (OUP, 2009), and The German Historicist Tradition (OUP, 2011).

Review:

"Beiser presents a unified account of various ideas and theories gathered from a wide range of sources, and some of the material in the book, such as the details of Trendelenburg's criticisms of Hegel's logic, will undoubtedly be of interest to some scholars working in the history of philosophy." -- Mind

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0198777558
• ISBN 13: 9780198777557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352