Modern German thought from Kant to Habermas : an annotated German-Language reader / edited by Henk de Berg and Duncan Large.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Henk de, 1963-

Large, Duncan.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German--Bibliography.

Philosophy, German.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 396 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.

Language Note:

In German; editorial matter in English.

Summary:

German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity, but their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, and this has often made it difficult to engage fully with their rhetorical and philosophical complexity. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an introduction charting the remarkable flowering of German-language thought since the eighteenth century, it offers extracts-in the original German-from sixteen major philosophical texts, with extensive introductions and annotations in English. All extracts are carefully chosen to introduce the individual thinkers while allowing the reader to pursue broader themes such as the fate of reason or the history of modern selfhood. For students and scholars alike, this collection represents a new way into a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and thus remain of crucial relevance today.

The philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Benjamin, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno, Habermas. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 21

Life and Work 21

"Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Auflärung?" (1784) 23

Editors' Introduction 23

Text 25

Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage (1787) 34

Editors' Introduction 34

Text 36

For Further Reading 51

2 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 57

Life and Work 57

Grundlinien der Philosophic des Rechts (1821) 59

Editors' Introduction 59

Text 60

For Further Reading 76

3 Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72) 81

Life and Work 81

Das Wesen des Christentums (1841) 83

Editors' Introduction 83

Text 84

For Further Reading 92

4 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 97

Life and Work 97

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. 2: "Von der Nichtigkeit und dem Leiden des Lebens" (1844) 99

Editors' Introduction 99

Text 100

For Further Reading 118

5 Karl Marx (1818-83) 123

Life and Work 123

"Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie. Einleitung" (1844) 126

Editors' Introduction 126

Text 126

"Thesen über Feuerbach" (1845) 145

Editors' Introduction 145

Text 146

Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie. Vorwort (1859) 149

Editors' Introduction 149

Text 150

For Further Reading 155

6 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 159

Life and Work 159

Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hummer philosophiert (1889) 161

Editors' Introduction 161

Text 162

For Further Reading 181

7 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 185

Life and Work 185

Über Psychoanalyse (1910) 188

Editors' Introduction 188

Text 189

Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1930) 200

Editors' Introduction 200

Text 200

For Further Reading 210

8 Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 217

Life and Work 217

Sein und Zeit (1927) 219

Editors' Introduction 219

Text 221

For Further Reading 234

9 Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) 239

Life and Work 239

Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (1939) 242

Editors' Introduction 242

Text 244

For Further Reading 275

10 Georg Lukács (1885-1971) 281

Life and Work 281

"Einfuhrung in die ästhetischen Schriften von Marx und Engels" (1946) 283

Editors' Introduction 283

Text 284

For Further Reading 311

11 Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) 317

Life and Work 317

Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente (1944/47) 319

Editors' Introduction 319

Text 320

For Further Reading 350

12 Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) 355

Life and Work 355

"Die Moderne - ein unvollendetes Projekt" (1980) 358

Editors' Introduction 358

Text 358

For Further Reading 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781571135452

1571135456

9781571133540

1571133542

OCLC:

775420101