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Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European & Philosophy offers an engaging and in-depth introduction to the philosophical questions raised by this rich and far reaching period in the history of philosophy. Throughout thirty chapters (organized around fifteen individual philosophers), the volume surveys the intellectual contributions of European philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, but it also engages the on-going debates about how these contributions can and should be understood. As such, the volume provides both an overview of Nineteenth-Century European philosophy and an introduction to contemporary scholarship in this field.
KEY DEBATES IN EUROPEAN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Kristin Gjesdal (ed.)
Contributors
Editor's Introduction
I. Kantian Presuppositions
1. The Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in German Idealism
by Rolf-Peter Horstmann
2. The Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in German Idealism: A Response to Rolf-Peter Horstmann
by Paul Guyer
II. Fichte (1762-1814)
3. Fichte's Original Insight
by Dieter Henrich
4. Fichte's Original Insight: Dieter Henrich's Pioneering Piece Half A Century Later
by Günter Zöller
III. Romanticism
5. Philosophical Foundations of Early Romanticism
by Manfred Frank
6. Response to Manfred Frank, "Philosophical Foundations of Early Romanticism"
by Michael N. Forster
IV. Hegel (1770-1831)
7. From Desire to Recognition: Hegel's Account of Human Sociality
by Axel Honneth
8. On Honneth's Interpretation of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness"
by Robert B. Pippin
V. Schelling (1775-1854)
9. The Nature of Subjectivity: The Critical and Systematic Function of Schelling's Philosophy of Nature
by Dieter Sturma
10. Nature as Unconditioned? The Critical and Systematic Function of Schelling's Early Works
by Dalia Nassar
VI. Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
11. The Real Essence of Human Beings: Schopenhauer and the Unconscious Will
by Christopher Janaway
12. Emancipation from the Will
by David E. Wellbery
VII. Comte (1798-1857)
13. Auguste Comte and Modern Epistemology
by Johan Heilbron
14. Why Was Comte an Epistemologist?
by Robert C. Scharff
VIII. Mill (1806-1873)
15. Mill: The Principle of Liberty
by John Rawls
16. John Rawls on Mill's Principle of Liberty
by John Skorupski
IX. Darwin (1809-1882)
17. Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection and its Moral Purpose
by Robert J. Richards
18. Response to Richards
by Gabriel Finkelstein
X. Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
19. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation
by Stanley Cavell
20. A Nice Arrangement of Epigrams: Stanley Cavell on Søren Kierkegaard
by Stephen Mulhall
XI. Marx (1818-1883)
21. Marx's Metacritique of Hegel: Synthesis Through Social Labor
by Jürgen Habermas
22. Epistemology and Self-Reflection in the Young Marx
by Espen Hammer
XII. Dilthey (1833-1911)
23. Wilhelm Dilthey after 150 Years (Between Romanticism and Positivism)
by Hans-Georg Gadamer
24. Gadamer on Dilthey
by Frederick C. Beiser
XIII. Nietzsche (1844-1900)
25. Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology
by Bernard Williams
26. Naturalism, Minimalism, and the Scope of Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology
by Paul Katsafanas
XIV. Freud (1856-1939)
27. Bad Faith and Falsehood
by Jean-Paul Sartre
28. Freud
by Sebastian Gardner
XV. Twentieth-Century Developments
29. Analytic and Conversational Philosophy
by Richard Rorty
30. Not Knowing What the Right Hand is Doing: Rorty's "Ambidextrous" Analytic Redescription of Nineteenth-Century Hegelian Philosophy
by Paul Redding
References for Republished Texts
Accompanying Original Works (Suggested Reading)
Biography
Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Her work covers the areas of post-Kantian philosophy (especially hermeneutics and phenomenology), aesthetics, and enlightenment thought. She is the author of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (2009) and the editor (with Michael Forster) of The Oxford Handbook to German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (2015).
"This is a superb volume with outstanding contributions by the very top scholars of German Idealism and nineteenth century philosophy. The inclusion of three generations of scholars in this collection makes it a truly admirable achievement and asset."
Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University, USA
'Should philosophy be systematic or should it be focused on discrete puzzles? Historical or argumentative? Continental or analytic? This volume shows compellingly that in every case the answer is "both."'
Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College, USA
'This highly recommended volume is original in its conception and impressive in its execution. The pairing of classical interpretations with reactions by top current philosophers is excellently done. Specialists and students alike will benefit from this outstanding collection of seminal discussions of leading figures from Kant through Freud.'
Karl P. Ameriks, University of Notre Dame, USA
