Editors:
Challenges the traditional understanding of the relation between German Idealism and existentialism as one of fundamental opposition
Identifies the important differences in the two movements in insightful and thought provoking ways
Treats often neglected figures such as Jacobi and Trendelenburg
Part of the book series: Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism (PHGI)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Anticipations of Existentialism in the German Idealists
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Front Matter
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The Existentialists’ Use of the German Idealists
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About this book
This Handbook explores the complex relations between two great schools of continental philosophy: German idealism and existentialism. While the existentialists are commonly thought to have rejected idealism as overly abstract and neglectful of the concrete experience of the individual, the chapters in this collection reveal that the German idealists in fact anticipated many key existentialist ideas. A radically new vision of the history of continental philosophy is thereby established, one that understands existentialism as a continuous development from German idealism.
Key Features
- Operates at both the macro-level and micro-level, treating both the two schools of thought and the individual thinkers associated with them
- Explores the relations from shifting perspectives by examining how the German idealists anticipated existentialist themes and how the existentialists concretely drew on the work of the idealists
- Meticulously uncovers and documents many little-known points of contact between the German idealists and the existentialists
- Includes often neglected figures such as Jacobi and Trendelenburg
This Handbook is an essential resource for researchers and advanced students interested in thinking critically about the broad development of continental philosophy. Moreover, the individual chapters on specific philosophers contain a wealth of information that will compel experts in the field to reconsider their views on these figures.
Keywords
- continental philosophy
- philosophical tradition
- inspiration
- precursors
- Kant
- Fichte
- Hegel
- Kierkegaard
- Nietzche
- Heidegger
- Sartre
- Camus
- existentialism
Editors and Affiliations
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Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Jon Stewart
About the editor
Jon Stewart is Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. Founder and general editor of the multi-volume series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, he has authored eleven books including Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003) and Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity (2015), as well as over forty articles on German idealism and 19th century continental philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism
Editors: Jon Stewart
Series Title: Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44571-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44570-6Published: 26 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44573-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44571-3Published: 25 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6230
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6249
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 576
Topics: German Idealism, Philosophical Traditions, History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind