Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-299) and index

Introduction : interpreting German Idealism / Karl Ameriks -- The Enlightenment and idealism / Frederick Beiser -- Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism / Paul Guyer -- Kant's practical philosophy / Allen W. Wood -- The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller / Daniel O. Dahlstrom -- All or nothing : systematicity and nihilism in Jacobi, Reinhold, and Maimon / Paul Franks -- The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling / Rolf-Peter Horstmann -- Hölderlin and Novalis / Charles Larmore -- Hegel's Phenomenology and Logic : an overview / Terry Pinkard -- Hegel's practical philosophy : the realization of freedom / Robert Pippin -- German realism : the self-limitation of idealist thinking in Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer / Günter Zöller -- Politics and the New Mythology : the turn to Late Romanticism / Dieter Sturma -- German Idealism and the arts / Andrew Bowie -- The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard / Karl Ameriks

The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, first published in 2000, offers a comprehensive, penetrating and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling are all discussed in detail, together with a number of their contemporaries, such as Hölderlin and Schleiermacher, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well known in the English-speaking world. The essays in the volume trace and explore the unifying themes of German Idealism, and discuss their relationship to Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will appeal to a wide range of readers in philosophy, German studies, theology, literature, and the history of ideas