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Daniel Whistler argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. This is not just because of its influence on later thinkers, but is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy contains a rich assemblage of ideas and philosophical practices.

Resets the scholarship on the philosophical practice and style of François HemsterhuisOnly the second ever English-language monograph devoted to Hemsterhuis' philosophy and the first for 45 years. Feeds into an upsurge of interest in Hemsterhuis around celebrations of the tricentenary of his birth and the publication of the first ever English translations of his writings by EUP. Makes substantial use of the recently published complete edition of Hemsterhuis' correspondence.Focuses on Hemsterhuis' uses of myth, dialogue and imagery in his late dialogues which were so influential on the later Idealists and Romantics, including Novalis and the Schlegels.François Hemsterhuis (1721-1790) was the most significant Dutch philosopher after Spinoza. Daniel Whistler argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. This is not just because of its reception history - its influence on later German thinkers, such as Goethe, Hamann, Hegel, Herder, Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Kant, Jacobi, Novalis, Schelling, the Schlegels, Schleiermacher, Wieland - but is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy contains a rich assemblage of ideas and philosophical practices. Whistler looks specifically at Hemsterhuis' reflections on philosophical style and the strategies he employs to communicate ideas in his late dialogues. Taking seriously Hemsterhuis' newly-published complete correspondence as a significant philosophical text, he contends that Hemsterhuis deserves to be placed alongside Shaftesbury, Hamann, Friedrich Schlegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as one of the preeminent philosophical stylists of modernity

Part I Reading the German Idealists After'681 -- Reading Kant -- Reading Fichte -- Reading Maimon -- Reading Novalis and the Schlegels -- Reading Hölderlin -- Reading Hegel I: Textuality and the Phenomenology -- Reading Hegel II: Politics and History -- Reading Schelling -- Reading Schopenhauer -- Part II Themes and Concepts -- Systems of Knowledge -- Psychoanalysis -- Art -- Nature and Extinction -- Language -- Difference -- Nothing -- Apocalypse -- The University -- Enlightenment and Revolution -- Sovereignty and Community -- Part III Contemporary Stakes -- Felix Culpa, Dialectic and Becoming-Imperceptible -- Monism and Mistakes -- Editors' Conclusions: The Past, Present, and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation.

Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of Schelling's first controversy with his critic A. C. A. Eschenmayer in 1801, which focused on the philosophy of nature. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer.

"Of all the topics in the history of philosophy the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked. What is it to think philosophically? How did different forms of thinking - reflection, contemplation, critique and analysis - emerge in different epochs? This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Indian and Islamic thought and the role of speculation in twentieth-century Russian philosophy. Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille. Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas"--

Acknowledgements ; Notes on the Contributors ; Editors' Introduction / Gillian Howie's Philosophies of Embodied Practice, Victoria Browne and Daniel Whistler -- Part One: Feminism, Materialism, Critical Theory. Chapter One. When Feminist Philosophy Met Critical Theory: Gillian Howie's Historical Materialism, Stella Sandford ; Chapter Two. Feminist Knowledge and Feminist Politics: Reflections on Howie and Late Feminism, Kimberly Hutchings ; Chapter Three. Between Negative Dialectics and Sexual Difference: Generative Conjunctures in the Thinking of Gillian Howie, Joanna Hodge ; Chapter Four. Scholarly Time and Feminist Time: Gillian Howie on Education and Intellectual Inheritance, Victoria Browne ; Chapter Five The Cloistered Imaginary, Daniel Whistler -- Part Two: Living with Dying. Chapter Six. How to Think about Death: Living with Dying, Gillian Howie ; Chapter Seven. Gillian Howie's Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying 'In Situation', Christine Battersby ; Chapter Eight. The Relationality of Death, Alison Stone ; Chapter Nine. Reflections on 'Living up to Death', Morny Joy ; Chapter Ten. Learning to Die, Finally, Claire Colebrook ; Chapter Eleven. 'What the Living Do': Poetry's Death and Dying, Deryn Rees-Jones ; Chapter Twelve. Cancer Sucks: Photography and the Representation of Chronic Illness, Nedim Hassan ; Chapter Thirteen. Movie-making as Palliative Care, Amy Hardie ; Chapter Fourteen. Experience and Performance whilst Living with Disability and Dying: Disability Art as a Pathway to Flourishing, Janet Price and Ruth Gould -- Index.

Part I: Overcoming Gnosticism -- 1. I Hurt, Therefore I Am: Descartes with Blumenberg (and Job) -- 2. Legitimacy of Nihilism: Blumenberg's Post-Gnosticism -- 3. Blumenberg, Latour and the Apocalypse -- Part II: Political Theologies of Modernity -- 4. The Sovereignity of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (After Blumenberg) -- 5. Interrogating John Locke and the Propriety of Appropriation with Blumenberg and Voegelin -- 6. Political Legitimacy and Founding Myths -- Part III: Competing Visions of Modernity -- 7. Trial and Crisis: Blumenberg and Husserl on the Genesis and Meaning of Modern Science -- 8. Infinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography -- 9. The Ideal of Optics and the Opacity of Life: Blumenberg on Modernity and Myth -- Part IV: Modernity and Method -- 10. World-Modelling and Cartesian Method: Blumenberg's Hyperopia -- 11. Umbesetzung: Reoccupation in Blumenbergian Modernity -- 12. Modernising Blumenberg.

Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs suggests new ways of thinking about moral philosophy in its under-explored but potentially very fruitful encounter with philosophy of religion. The contributors undertake this project through a variety of novel approaches, via literature, psychoanalysis, history of philosophy, continental and feminist thought, as well as by means of analytic philosophy. The volume will include essays by both highly regarded academics who have already made significant contributions in the fields of moral and/or religious philosophy - and a select number of young, up-and-coming rese

The first ever English translation of Franois Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence, making accessible to Anglophone readers some of the most significant texts, for a genuine understanding of his philosophy.

This critical edition translates Hemsterhuis' 'Letter on an Antique Gemstone', 'Letter on Sculpture', 'Letter on Desires', 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and 'Philosophical Description of the Character of the Late Mr F. Fagel' into English for the first time. Three introductions explore these texts' influence and significance.

This collection translates Hemsterhuis' Sophylus, Aristeaus, Simon and Alexis dialogues into English for the first time, with full scholarly apparatus and commentary. It includes two introductory essays: one by Daniel Whistler (on Hemsterhuis and Amelia Gallitzin) and Laure Cahen-Maurel (on the transmission and influence of these dialogues).