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Originally published in 1935, this book charts the development of philosophy in Germany from German Humanism to Heidegger and his contemporaries. Brock also devotes an entire chapter to the lasting impact of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard on German philosophy. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of German philosophy and its presentation before WWII.

Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half-when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. But Frederick Beiser argues that the second half of the century was in fact one of the most revolutionary periods in modern philosophy because the nature of philosophy itself was up for grabs and the very absence of certainty led to creativity and the start of a new era

This concise but comprehensive work provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hsle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Copernican Turn in Early German Romanticism -- Chapter 2 Romantic Views of Language -- Chapter 3 Religion and Early German Romanticism: the Finite and the Infinite -- Chapter 4 The Romantic Poetry of Nature: an Antidote to German Idealism's Eclipsing of Natural Beauty -- Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Myth -- Chapter 6 Romantic Bildung and the Persistence of Teleology -- Chapter 7 The Philosophical Relevance of Romantic Irony -- Chapter 8 Literary Criticism in the Age of Critical Philosophy -- Chapter 9 Fichte and the Early German Romantics -- Chapter 10 Hegel's Critique of Romantic Irony -- Chapter 11 Hölderlin's Path: on Sustaining Romanticism from Kant to Nietzsche -- Chapter 12 Homesickness, Interdisciplinarity, and the Absolute: Heidegger's Relation to Schlegel and Novalis -- Index.

Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until 1920, led by Nietzsche, Dilthey, and Simmel. This was the first Western intellectual movement to develop an entirely secular and humanist conception of life, believing that the meaning of life had to be found in life itself.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The Copernican Turn in Early German Romanticism /Jane Kneller -- Romantic Views of Language /Howard Pollack-Milgate -- Religion and Early German Romanticism: the Finite and the Infinite /John H. Smith -- The Romantic Poetry of Nature: an Antidote to German Idealism's Eclipsing of Natural Beauty /Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- The Philosophy of Myth /Erwin Cook -- Romantic Bildung and the Persistence of Teleology /Thomas Pfau -- The Philosophical Relevance of Romantic Irony /Bärbel Frischmann -- Literary Criticism in the Age of Critical Philosophy /Judith Norman -- Fichte and the Early German Romantics /Susan-Judith Hoffmann -- Hegel's Critique of Romantic Irony /Jeffrey Reid -- Hölderlin's Path: on Sustaining Romanticism from Kant to Nietzsche /Karl Ameriks -- Homesickness, Interdisciplinarity, and the Absolute: Heidegger's Relation to Schlegel and Novalis /Ian Alexander Moore -- Back Matter -- Index.