GERMAN THOUGHT
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SUB-PAGES

Topics:

• German Literature

Feminist:

• German Feminist Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

• Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland (German Society for Philosophy)

• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie (Austrian Association of Philosophy)

CONFERENCES

2009:

• The 'Good German' in Literature and Culture, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, October 1-2

2008:

2007:

• Brains and Persons [With a Main Focus on Austrian Philosophy], 8th Congress, Austrian Society of Philosophy, June 7-9

2006:

2005:

• 20th Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Philosophie, Technische Universitat Berlin, September 26-30

• The Question of Normativity, 11th International French-German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian (Lake Geneva), Switzerland, July 17-23

2004:

• Sociality and Recognition, 10th International French-German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian (Lake Geneva), France, July 18-24

• What We Owe the Germans: the Relevance of German-Language Philosophy to Contemporary Thought, Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton, March 20

• Justice: in Search of a Balance, Seventh Congress of the Austrian Association of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, February 1-4

2003:

• What Is a Human Being?, 9th Annual French-German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian (Lake Geneva), France, July 13-19

2002:

2001:

2000:

1999:

Annual:

• Annual French - German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, Switzerland

COURSES

• University of Auckland: 20th Century German Philosophy (Franchi)

• Concordia University: Contemporary German Philosophy (Zeman)

• University of London, Royal Holloway College: German Philosophy from Nietzsche to Habermas: the Critique of Modern Culture (Bowie)

• University of Wales, Swansea: Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Medieval:

  • Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328)

• Renaissance:
• Early Modern:

  • Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716)

  • Christian Thomasius (1655-1724)

  • Christian Wolff (1679 - 1754)

  • Johann Martin Chladenius (1710 - 1759)

  • Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781)

  • Johann Georg Hamann (1730 - 1788)

  • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743 - 1819)

• Nineteenth Century:

  • Romantic:

    • Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803)

    • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

    • Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

    • Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814)

    • Wilhelm Humboldt (1767 - 1835)

    • Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834)

    • G. W. F. Hegel (1770 - 1831)

    • Novalis [Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg] (1772 - 1801)

    • August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767 - 1845)

    • Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834)

    • G. W. F. Hegel (1770 - 1831)

    • Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 - 1829)

    • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775 - 1854)

  • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):

    • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

    • Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872)

    • Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) (see also Marxism)

    • Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) (see also Marxism)

    • Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911)

    • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

• Twentieth Century:

  • Analytic:

    • Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925)

    • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)

    • Logical Positivism / Empiricism:

      • Hans Hahn (1879 - 1934)

      • Moritz Schlick (1882 - 1936)

      • Otto Neurath (1882 - 1945)

      • Philipp Frank (1884 - 1966)

      • Rudolf Carnap (1891 - 1970)

      • Hans Reichenbach (1891 - 1953)

      • Karl Popper (1902 - 1994)

      • Carl Gustav Hempel (1905 - 1997)

      • Gustav Bergmann (1906 - 1987)

  • Continental:

    • Idealism:

      • Neo-Kantianism:

        • Kuno Fischer (1824 - 1907)

        • Friedrich Albert Lange (1828 - 1875)

        • Hans Vaihinger (1852 - 1933)

        • Marburg School:

          • Hermann Cohen (1842 - 1918)

          • Paul Gerhard Natorp (1852 - 1924)

          • Ernst Cassirer (1874 - 1945)

          • Nicolai Hartmann (1882 - 1950)

        • Baden School:

          • Wilhelm Windelband (1848 - 1915)

          • Heinrich John Rickert (1863 - 1936)

          • Emil Lask (1875 - 1915)

      • Neo-Hegelianism:

        • Karl Vossler (1872 - 1949)

        • Ernst Cassirer (1874 - 1945)

        • Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)

        • Ernst Robert Curtius (1886 - 1956)

        • Leo Spitzer (1887 - 1960)

        • Erich Auerbach (1892 - 1957)

    • Marxism:

      • Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

      • Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)

      • Franz Mehring (1846 - 1919)

      • Karl Kautsky (1854 - 1938)

      • Rosa Luxemburg (1871 - 1919)

      • Ernst Bloch (1885 - 1977)

      • Karl Korsch (1886 - 1961)

      • Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940)

      • Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1971)

      • Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

      • Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979)

      • Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)

      • Leo Lowenthal (1900 - 1993)

      • Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969)

      • Karl Otto Apel (1922 - )
      • Ernst Mandel (1923 - )

      • Jurgen Habermas (1929 - )

      • Axel Honneth (1949 - )

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:

      • Franz Brentano (1838 - 1917)
      • Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938)
      • Max Scheler (1874 - 1928)
      • Martin Buber (1878 - 1965)
      • Adolf Reinach (1883 - 1917)
      • Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969)
      • Rudolph Bultmann (1884 - 1976)

      • Franz Rosenzweig (1886 - 1929)

      • Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)
      • Helmuth Plessner (1892 - 1985)
      • Alfred Schutz (1899 - 1959)
      • Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 - 2002)

      • Arnold Gehlen (1904 - 1976)

      • Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
      • Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
      • Hans-Robert Jauss (1921 - 1997)
      • Karl Otto Apel (1922 - )
      • Wolfgang Iser (1926 - )
      • Manfred Frank (1945 - )

    • Psychoanalysis:

      • Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

      • Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)

      • Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

      • Karl Abraham (1877-1925)

      • Melanie Klein (1882 - 1960)

      • Otto Rank (1884 - 1939)

      • Karen Horney (1885 - 1952)

      • Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)

      • Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)

      • Erik H. Erikson (1902 - 1994)

      • Bruno Bettelheim (1903 - 1990)

      • Erich Neumann (1905 - 1960)

      • Heinz Kohut (1913 - 1981)

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

      • Deleuzean Theory:

      • Dialogism:

      • Foucauldian Theory:

      • Semiotics / Semiology / Structuralism:

      • Structuralist Marxism:

      • Structuralist Psychoanalysis:

    • Others:
      • Philosophy of Culture:

        • Franz Boas (1858 - 1942)

        • Erich Rothacker ( - 1936)

        • Eduard Spranger ( - 1963)

        • Theodor Litt ( - 1962)

        • Eduard von Hartmann ( - 1905)

        • Oswald Kulpe ( - )

        • Aloys Wenzl ( - 1967)

        • Leo Gabriel ( - )

        • Nicolai Hartmann (1882 - 1950)

      • Lebensphilosophie:

        • Ludwig Klasse ( - 1956)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Arts:

    • Amacher, Richard, and Victor Lange, eds.  New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.

  • Society:

    • Nazism / Anti-Semitism:

      • Mosse, George L., ed.  Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich.  New York: Schocken, 1981.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Society:

    • Nazism / Anti-Semitism:

      • Hitler, Adolf.  Mein Kampf. 

On-Line:

See also Primary Sources listed for: Nineteenth Century Philosophy

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Greenspan, Louis, and Graeme Nicholson, eds.  Fackenheim: German Philosophy and Jewish Thought.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992.

  • O'Hear, Anthony, ed.  German Philosophy since Kant.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

  • Scruton, Roger, Peter Singer, Christopher Janaway, and Michael Tanner.  German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.

  • Textor, Mark, ed.  The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2006.

  • Arts:

    • Saul, Nicholas, ed.  Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bowie, Andrew.  Introduction to German Philosophy: from Kant to Habermas.  Cambridge: Polity, 2003.

  • Bowie, Andrew.  "German Philosophy Today: Between idealism, Romanticism and Pragmatism."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  357-398.

  • Bubner, Rudiger.  Modern German Philosophy.  Trans. Eric Matthews.  Cambridge: CUP, 1981.

  • Geuss, Raymond.  Morality, Culture, and History: Essays on German Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

  • Glock, Hans-Johann.  "Vordprung durch Logik: the German Analytic Tradition."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  137-166.

  • Gorner, Paul.  Twentieth Century German Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

  • Heine, Heinrich.  1834.

    • ON the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany. 

  • Kohnke, Klaus Christian.  The Rise of Neo-Kantianism: German Academic Philosophy Between Idealism and Positivism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.

  • von Rintelen, Fritz Joachim.  Contemporary German Philosophy and its Background.  Bonn: Bouvier, 1970.

  • Roberts, Julian.  German Philosophy: an Introduction.  Humanity Books, 1988.

  • Roberts, Julian.  The Logic of Reflection: German Philosophy in the 20th Century.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.

  • Schnaedelbach, Herbert.  German Philosophy, 1831-1933.  Trans. Eric Matthews.  Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

  • Scruton, Roger, Peter Singer, Christopher Janaway, and Michael Tanner.  German Philosophers.  Oxford: OUP, 1997.

  • Smith, Barry.  Austrian Philosophy: the Legacy of Franz Brentano.  La Salle: Open Court, 1994.

  • Stirk, Peter M. R.  Twentieth-Century German Political Thought.  Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh P, 2006.

  • Sutton, Claud.  The German Tradition in Philosophy.  Crane Russak, 1974.

  • Uebel, Thomas E.  "Otto Neurath, the Vienna Circle and the Austrian Tradition."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  249-269.

  • Arts:

    • Bowie, Andrew.  Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993.

    • Bowie, Andrew.  From Romanticism to Critical Theory: the Philosophy of German Literary Theory.  London: , 1997.

    • Hammermeister, Kai.  The German Aesthetic Tradition.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
    • Hohendahl, Peter Uwe.  A History of German Literary Criticism, 1730-1980.  1988.
    • Seel, Marin.  "The Career of Aesthetics in German Thinking."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  399-412.
    • Wellek, Rene.  German, Russian, and Eastern European Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6.  A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1991.

  • Society:

    • Nazism / Anti-Semitism:

      • Mosse, George L. 

On-Line:

• Sassen, Brigitte: 18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Arts:

  • Ellis, John M., and Evelyn W. Asher:

    • German Theory and Criticism 4: Twentieth Century to 1968 (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

    • German Theory and Criticism 5: Contemporary (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

See also Secondary Sources listed for: Nineteenth Century Philosophy

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

Austria:

• University of Vienna: Institut fur Philosophie

Germany:

• Universitat Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms): Philosophiches Seminar

• Universitat Duesseldorf (Heinrich Heine): Philosophische Fakultat

• Universitat Erfurt: Philosophisches Fakultat

• Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Johann Wolfgang Goethe): Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Freiburg (Albert Ludwigs): Philosophische Fakultat

• Freie Universitat Berlin: Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Göttingen (Georg August): Philosophisches Seminar

• Universitat Greifswald (Ernst Moritz Arndt): Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Halle-Wittenberg (Martin Luther): Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Hamburg: Institut fur Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaft

• Universitat Heidelburg (Ruprecht Karls): Philosophische Fakultät

• Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin: Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Jena (Friedrich Schiller): Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Kiel (Christian-Albrecht): Philosophisches Seminar

• Universitat Koln (Cologne): Philosophischen Seminars

• Universitat Konstanz: Fachgruppe Philosophie

• Universitat Leipzig: 

  • Institut fur Philosophie

  • Institut für Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie

• Universitat Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg): Philosophisches Seminar

• Universitat Marburg (Philipps): Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Munchen (Ludwig Maximilians): Philosophie Department

• Universitat Potsdam: Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Rostock: Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken): Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Stuttgart: Institut fur Philosophie

• Universitat Tubingen (Eberhard Karls): Institut fur Philosophie und Geschichte

• Universitat Wuppertal: Philosophie

• Universitat Würzburg (Bayerische Julius Maximus): Institut fur Philosophie

Elsewhere:

• United Kingdom:
  • University of Glasgow: Centre for Intercultural Studies: MPhil in Modern German Thought
  • University of London: School of Advanced Studies: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
• USA:
  • Johns Hopkins University: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

WWW GATEWAYS

• University of Wales, Swansea: German Philosophy Links

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