NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT
(c. 1785 - c. 1890)

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Philosophers / Theorists:

By School of Thought:

• Romanticisms and Neo-Romanticisms (inc. Hermeneutics, Historicism):

  • German Idealism and Anglo-American Idealism

  • Nineteenth Century Existentialism

• 'Victorian' and Fin de Siècle Thought (inc. Empiricism, Positivism, Utilitarianism):

  • Marxism

  • Pragmatism (USA)

By Nationality:

• Denmark:

  • Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) (see also Existentialism)

• France:

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) (see also Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Thought)

  • Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857)

• Germany:

  • Johann Georg Hamann (1730 - 1788)

  • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743 - 1819)

  • Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) (see also Hermeneutics)

  • Wilhelm Humboldt (1767 - 1835)

  • Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) (see also Hermeneutics)

  • Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778 - 1841) (see also Hermeneutics)

  • August Philip Böckh (1785 - 1867) (see also Hermeneutics)

  • Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872)

  • Johann Gustav Droysen (1808 - 1884) (see also Hermeneutics)

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

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

  • Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) (see also Hermeneutics)

  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) (see also Existentialism)

• Italy:

  • Giambattista Vico (1688 - 1744) (see also Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Thought)

• UK:

  • Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) (see also Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Thought)

  • Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)

  • William Godwin (1756 - 1836)

  • Richard Whately (1787 - 1863)

  • Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

  • John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

  • Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

  • Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

• USA:

  • American Transcendentalism and Neo-Hegelianism:

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

    • Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

    • Josiah Royce (1855 - 1916)

  • Pragmatism:
    • Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914)
    • William James (1842 - 1910)
    • John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

Topics:

• Romantic and Neo-Romantic Literature and Literary Theory

• 'Victorian' Literature and Literary Theory

Feminist:

• Romantic and Neo-Romantic Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Romantic and Neo-Romantic Thought:

  • Romantic and Neo-Romantic Literature and Literary Theory by Women / Feminist Perspectives on Romantic and Neo-Romantic Literature and Literary Theory

• 'Victorian' Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on 'Victorian' Thought:

  • 'Victorian' Literature and Literary Theory by Women / Feminist Perspectives on Victorian Literature and Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Romantic and Neo-Romantic Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Romantic and Neo-Romantic Thought:

  • Romantic and Neo-Romantic Non-Western Literature and Literary Theory / Post-colonial Perspectives on Romantic and Neo-Romantic Literature and Literary Theory

• 'Victorian' Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on 'Victorian' Thought:

  • Victorian Non-Western Literature and Literary Theory / Post-colonial Perspectives on Victorian Literature and Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCS)

• Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA)

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Minds, Bodies, Machines in the Long Nineteenth Century, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birbeck College, University of London, July 6-7

• 'Up to Date with a Vengeance': Nineteenth Century Science, Technology and Media, 22nd Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City, April 19-21

• Race and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century, 28th Annual Conference, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA), Susquehanna University, March 8-10

2006:

• The History of the Transcendental Turn, Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism Project, Senate House, London, September 29-30

• The Concept of the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century German Thought, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, September 21-22

• Transnational England, 1750-1850, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, July 28

• Conflicts, 21st Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Department of English, University of Rutgers, March 31-April 1

• Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain, departments of English Literature and Philosophy, in association with and supported by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, February 25

2005:

• Impurities, 20th Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Louisiana State University, April 21-24

2004:

• Serious Pleasures, 19th Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Iowa, April 1-4

2003:

• Nineteenth Century Worlds: Local / Global, 18th Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame London Centre, July 10-12, 2003

• Slippery Words: the Historical Semantics of the Period 1760-1830, University of Glamorgan, July 8-9

• 1830 - 1848: the End of Metaphysics as a Transformation of Culture, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp, May 26-27, 2003

• Moving Forward, Looking Back: Thinking about Progress, 1800-1850, Senate House, University of London, April 4-5

2002:

2001:

2000:

Seminars:

• Fin de Siècle Seminar, 1870-1920, University of Oxford, October 12, 2006-June 30, 2007

COURSES

• University of California, Davis: Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Mattey)

• California State University, Dominguez Hills: History of 19th Century European Philosophy (Shimomissé)

• Concordia University: Kant and 19th Century German Philosophy (Zeman)

• Dalhousie University: Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Burns)

• Earlham University: Nineteenth Century Continental Philosophy (Guven)

• Grinnell College: Nineteenth Century Continental Philosophy (Alan Schrift)

• Kalamazoo College: Nineteenth Century Philosophy: 2003 / 2004 (Latiolais)
• University of Kansas: Themes in Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy (Maybee)
• Lewis and Clark University: Nineteenth Century Philosophy: 1999 / 2002 / 2003 (Fritzman)
• Michigan State University: Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Hollander)
• Southern Connecticut State University: 19th Century Philosophy (Gilliland)
• Texas A & M University: Nineteenth Century Philosophy (George)
• William Paterson University: Nineteenth Century (Steinhart)

JOURNALS

• Nineteenth Century Contexts

• Victorian Review

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Baird, Forrest, and Walter Kaufmann, eds.  Nineteenth Century Philosophy.  4th Ed.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.

  • Gardiner, Patrick, ed.  Nineteenth Century Philosophy.  New York: Free Press, 1969.

• Selected Individual Works:

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On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Socio-Historical Context:

    Pilbeam, Pamela M., ed.  Themes in Modern European History, 1780-1830.  London: Routledge, .

    • Waller, Bruce, ed.  Themes in European History, 1830-1890.  London: Routledge, . 

  • General:

    • Rajan, Tilottama, and David L. Clark, eds.  Intersections: Nineteenth Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.

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

    • Ten, C. L., ed.  The Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 7 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1994.

  • Communication:

  • Being:

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  • Human Being (Body, Mind, Self):

    • Chadwick, Owen.  The Secularisation of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.

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  • Knowledge:

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  • Morality:

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  • Religion:

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  • Sciences, Natural:

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  • Social Formation:

    • Butler, Marilyn, ed.  Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Socio-Historical Context:

    • Meinecke, Friedrich.  Historicism: the Rise of a New Historical Outlook.  Trans. J. E. Anderson.  New York: Herder & Herder, 1972.

  • General:

    • Ameriks, Karl.  Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy as Critical Interpretation.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss.  Vol. 9 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1974.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America.  Vol. 8 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1966.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: from the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.  Vol. 7 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1963.

    • Schnaedelbach, H.  German Philosophy, 1831-1933.  Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

    • Skorupski, John.  English-Language Philosophy, 1750-1945.  Vol. 6 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1993.

    • Stromberg, Roland.  European Intellectual History Since 1789.  
    • Willey, Basil.  Nineteenth Century Studies.  

  • Being:

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  • Communication:

    • Aarsleff, Hans.  The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.

  • Human Being:

  • Knowledge:

  • Morality:

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  • Religion:

  • Sciences, Natural:

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  • Social Formation:

    • Biddiss, Michael.  "Reason and Romanticism: Currents of Social and Political Thought."  Themes in Modern European History, 1780-1830.  Ed. Pamela M. Pilbeam.  London: Routledge, .  223-247.
    • Haddock, B. A.  "Shifting Patterns of Political Thought and Action: Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism."  Themes in European History, 1830-1890.  Ed. Bruce Waller.  London: Routledge, .  213-231.

On-Line:

• Mickelsen, Carl:  Timeline of Nineteenth Century Philosophy
• Shimomisse, Eiichi: History of 19th Century European Philosophy
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
  • 19th Century
    • Category Fin de Siècle:
      • Fin de Siècle
    • Industrial Revolution
  • 19th Century Philosophy

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Europe:

• UK:

  • Exeter University: Centre for European Ninteenth-Century Studies

  • University of London, Birbeck College: Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

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