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An Early Ally of Existentialism? Trendelenburg’s Logical Investigations in the Mirror of Kierkegaard’s Literary Project
The article explores the “proto-existentialist” elements and motifs in the philosophy of F.A. Trendelenburg (1802–1872), a renowned post-Hegelian...
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Edmund Husserl
This chapter highlights the systematic connections between Plotinus and Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. The first part of the chapter...
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Brentano on Aristotle’s Categories
Brentano’s dissertation Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle) (1862) is examined...
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Augusto Vera’s Mystical Conception of Hegelianism
This study reconstructs Augusto VeraVera, Augusto’s systematic interpretation of Hegel. Its fundamental thesis runs, “Philosophical knowledge is...
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Franz Brentano über Schelling – eine neue Lesart
Einige der wichtigsten Aspekte aus der Anfangsphase des Werkes von Franz Brentano müssen noch sorgfältiger als bisher eingeteilt und bewertet werden....
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Kierkegaard: A Transitional Figure from German Idealism to Existentialism
Søren Kierkegaard is often hailed as the father of existentialism or categorized as an existentialist avant la lettre. During his lifetime German...
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Das 19. Jahrhundert
Das 19. Jh. steht im Zeichen der Erneuerung aristotelischer Studien. Während sich die Philosophiehistorie des 18. und frühen 19. Jh.s, von Johann...
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Husserl Metaphysicus
The chapter provides a systematic and full reconstruction of the development of Husserl’s conception of metaphysics. Contrary to what is usually...
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The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism
This Handbook explores the complex relations between two great schools of continental philosophy: German idealism and existentialism. While the...
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Nishitani’s Critique of Hegel in Prajñā and Reason
In Prajñā and Reason Nishitani presents a powerful vision of philosophy as Absolute knowing. Nishitani’s conclusions are striking: Absolute knowing...
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The Vicissitudes of the Improper
In the 1973 Zähringen Seminar, Jean Beaufret asked Martin Heidegger the following question: “To what extent can it be said that there is no question...
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Kategorien
Der Ausdruck katêgoria bedeutet ›Aussage‹ oder, im juristischen Sinn, ›Anklage‹. Aristoteles bezeichnet damit terminologisch unterschiedliche Typen...
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The Operations of the Logical Calculus
English translation of Ernst Schröder’s 1877 booklet Der Operationskreis des Logikkalkuls (Leipzig: Teubner) and his “Note über den Operationskreis...
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The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention
In this paper, I present an emerging explanatory framework about ageing and care. In particular, I focus on how, in contrast to most classical...
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Conclusion: Anticipations and Influences
The basic hypothesis that the present collection wanted to test was that there are more points of continuity and overlap between the traditions of...
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Introduction: Questions of Identity and Difference in the Traditions of German Idealism and Existentialism
In standard histories of philosophy, existentialism is commonly presented as a critical reaction to and radical rejection of German Idealism....
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The Origins of the Engels Debate
This chapter traces out the origins of the Engels debate. It goes back to the earlier critical readings of Hegel. It proposes that before Engels’...
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From Nichts to Etwas: Transcendental Method and Negation in Hermann Cohen’s Idealism
The goal of this paper is to explain Hermann Cohen´s logic of origin and the role that negativity plays in it. In the first section, we will consider...
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(Dis-)Similarities: Remarks on “Austrian” and “German” Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
In this paper, I re-examine Barry (Smith B. Austrian philosophy. The legacy of Franz Brentano. Open Court, Chicago, 1994) list of features of...
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Individuation and Self-Awareness in Wilhelm Dilthey
Philosophy remains ensnared between reifying the isolated individual subject and reducing it to the structuring forces of nature and society. Neither...