Preface
Introduction
1. Early Education
2. Beginnings in Sociology
3. Early Work on Ethics
4. Historical Knowledge
5. Foundations of Sociology
6. The Philosophy of Money
7. Kant
8. Refutation of Pessimism
9. Philosophy of Religion
10. Chief Problems of Philosophy
11. Philosophy of Life
12. Simmel and Aesthetics.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Frederick C. Beiser is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Syracuse University, United States. A renowned scholar of German philosophy and German idealism, his work has garnered many prizes and awards. He has been a Thyssen and Humboldt research fellow, a 1994 Guggenheim fellow, an NEH faculty fellow, and won the 2015 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize for The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism 1796–1880. He received the German Order of Merit for his teaching on German philosophy. His many books include The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, The Romantic Imperative. Two of his books, Hegel and The Berlin Antisemitism Controversy, are both published by Routledge.
'Frederick Beiser is one of the most competent and fertile intellectual historians of Germany and German philosophy. His erudition is unsurpassable. He writes with great force, confidence and clarity, and is remarkable for his ability to transmit and translate a very intricate world of German philosophical ideas to the Anglophone reader in a lucid and accessible way. In this respect his new book on Georg Simmel is no exception, and it was a pleasure to read and learn from it.' - Efraim Podoksik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
