This outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters examines German idealism from several angles and assesses the renewed interest in the subject from a wide range of fields. Including disc
Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion?idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of
Beginning with the publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and extending through to Hegel’s death, the period known as German Idealism signaled the end of an epoch of rationalism, empiricism, an
In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panpsychism—the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and non
Personalism is understood today as the name of an important current in twentieth-century thought which, inspired by the Christian and humanistic traditions of the West, has sought to deepen our unders
The contributors cover a wide range of philosophical writers and texts to which the label “idealism” has been or might reasonably be attached. These include Plato, the Roman Stoics, the Neoplatonism o
Galen Strawson (philosophy, City O. of New York-Graduate Center and Reading U.) throws down the gauntlet with an essay claiming that physicalism does indeed entail panpsychism. Then colleagues from ar
Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially-
Interest in German Idealism--not just Kant, but Fichte and Hegel as well--has recently developed within analytic philosophy, which traditionally defined itself in opposition to the Idealist tradition.
Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, a
"This is vintage Krell--he is as always, a reader in the best sense of the word...." --Dennis J. Schmidt"Krell is a strong and often eloquent writer... I regard this to be one of his most important wo
Martin (history, Trinity U.) explores how men and women of the Renaissance experienced and understood the relation of inwardness or interiority, to the vast social, political, cultural, and religious
Transcendentalism was the name given to the New England movement of the 1830s and 1840s that brought together Romanticism in literature and social reform in politics. Its partisans argued for the r
Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives.
The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophi
Through a qualitative perspective on an environment, Clarke (philosophy, Southern Illinois U.- Carbondale) defends the view that mentality is present throughout nature. He outlines a version of the no
