Late German idealism : Trendelenburg and Lotze / Frederick C. Beiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beiser, Frederick C., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf, 1802-1872.

Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf.

Lotze, Hermann, 1817-1881.

Lotze, Hermann.

Idealism, German.

Physical Description:

xi, 333 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the two most important idealist philosophers in Germany after Hegel: Adolf Trendelenburg and Rudolf Lotze. Trendelenburg and Lotze dominated philosophy in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They were important influences on the generation after them, on Frege, Brentano, Dilthey, Kierkegaard, Cohen, Windelband and Rickert. 'Late German Idealism' is the first book on this significant but neglected chapter in European philosophical history. It provides a general introduction to every aspect of the philosophy of Trendelenburg and Lotze - their logic, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics; but it is also a study of their intellectual development, from their youth until their death. Their philosophy is placed in the context of their lives and culture.

Contents:

Part I Trendelenburg 9

1 Place in History 11

The Shrouded Colossus 11

2 Early Years (1802-1840) 16

1 Bildungsjahre 16

2 The Young Professor 23

3 Logic and Metaphysics 28

1 A Philosophical Revolution 28

2 The Organic Worldview 32

3 The Metaphysics of Motion 38

4 Defense of Teleology 46

5 Idealism and Realism 55

6 Critique of Hegel 59

4 Ethical and Political Theory 69

1 Turn to Politics 69

2 Foundation of Law and Morality 75

3 Theory of the State 87

5 Aesthetics, Religion, and Pedagogics 95

1 Aesthetics 95

2 The Religious Dimension 99

3 Trendelenburg as Educator 102

6 Controversy over Kant 107

1 An Infamous Dispute 107

2 Origins and Context 109

3 The Dispute Thickens 114

4 The Curtain Falls, Finally 118

Epilogue 121

Coda and Critique 121

Part II Lotze 125

1 Relevance of Lotze 127

Place in History and Influence 127

2 Youth and Education (Zittau and Leipzig, 1817-1839) 132

1 A Romantic Youth 132

2 University Years 138

3 Zittau Interlude 147

3 Early Metaphysics and Logic (Leipzig, 1839-1844) 153

1 First Metaphysics 153

2 Early Pathology 164

3 Polemic against Vitalism 168

4 Leipziger Allerlei and the Dorpat Affair 175

5 Early Logic 179

6 Westphalian Song and Dance 187

4 Aesthetics, Physiology, and Psychology (Göttingen, 1844-1854) 194

1 Arrival in Göttingen and Neo-Romantic Aesthetics 194

2 Principles of Physiology 204

3 Foundations of Psychology 210

4 A Kantian Psychology 223

5 Theory of Local Signs 229

6 Panpsychism and Spiritualism 232

5 Mikrokosmus (Göttingen, 1854-1864) 239

1 Lotze and the Materialism Controversy 239

2 Mikrokosmus: Goals and Context 250

3 The Genesis of Mikrokosmus 252

4 The Limits of Mechanism 256

5 Encounter with Darwin 261

6 Spiritualism versus Idealism 264

7 Amor Vincit Omnia 271

8 Philosophy of Religion 278

6 Practical Philosophy (Göttingen-Berlin, 1857-1881) 284

1 The Sultan's Idyll 284

2 Ethics 289

3 Philosophy of History 297

4 Political Thought 303

5 Death in Berlin 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index.

ISBN:

9780199682959

019968295X

OCLC:

833405112