Synopses & Reviews
The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-seven chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the material topically. After a brief editor's introduction, it begins with three chapters surveying the background of nineteenth century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two on nature and natural science, five on mind and language, including psychology, the human sciences and aesthetics, four on ethics, three on religion, seven on society, including chapters on the French Revolution, the decline of natural right, political economy, and social discontent, and three on history, dealing with historical method, speculative theories of history and the history of philosophy. The essays are framed by an editor's introduction and a bibliography.
Synopsis
This volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-eight chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the material topically, and are framed by an editor's introduction and a bibliography.
Synopsis
Brings together twenty-nine leading experts and covers the years 1790-1870, providing a comprehensive survey of the period.
About the Author
Allen W. Wood is Ruth Norman Halls Professor at Indiana University and Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His recent book publications include Karl Marx (2004) and Kantian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has also edited and translated numerous works of philosophy and published extensively in academic journals.Songsuk Susan Hahn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Université Concordia in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She has also held teaching appointments at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University and the American University of Paris. She is the author of Contradiction in Motion: Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value (2007).
Table of Contents
Introduction Allen W. Wood; Part I. Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century: 1. The Kantian aftermath: reaction and revolution in German philosophy Robert Pippin; 2. The social conditions of philosophy in the nineteenth century Terry Pinkard; 3. The unity of reason and the diversity of life: the idea of a system in Kant and nineteenth-century philosophy Rolf-Peter Horstmann; Part II. Logic and Mathematics: 4. Attempts to rethink logic Jeremy Heis; 5. Some developments in the philosophy of mathematics, 1790-1870 Janet Folina; Part III. Nature: 6. Conceptions of the natural worlds, 1790-1870 Alexander Rueger; 7. Natural sciences Philippe Huneman; Part IV. Mind, Language, and Culture: 8. Psychology Gary Hatfield; 9. Language Michael N. Forster; 10. The emergence of the human sciences from the moral sciences Rudolf Makkreel; 11. The beautiful and the good: aesthetics, 1790-1870 Paul Guyer; Part V. Ethics: 12. Autonomy and the self as the basis of morality Bernard Reginster; 13. Ethics and the social good John Skorupski; 14. Moral epistemology Jerome B. Schneewind and Allen W. Wood; 15. Antimoralism Allen W. Wood; Part VI. Religion: 16. Challenges to religion in the nineteenth century Van A. Harvey; 17. Three types of speculative religion Stephen Crites; 18. The defense of traditional religion, 1790-1870 James C. Livingston; Part VII. Society: 19. Philosophical responses to the French Revolution Frederick C. Beiser and Pamela Edwards; 20. The decline of natural right Jeremy Waldron; 21. Conceptions of society in nineteenth-century social thought Frederick Neuhouser; 22. Nineteenth-century political economy Debra Satz; 23. The nation state Erica Benner; 24. Nineteenth-century ideals: self-culture and the religion of humanity Daniel Brudney; 25. Social dissatisfaction and social change Christine Blaettler; Part VIII. History: 26. Philosophizing about history: the method of Zusammenhang Laurence Dickey; 27. Philosophy of history: the German tradition from Herder to Marx John Zammito; 28. The history of philosophy Michael N. Forster.