German Idealism

From the early 1790s until after the turn of the century, a very productive but also controversial exchange took place between Reinhold and Fichte. Though many key aspects of post-Kantian philosophy …

This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the origins of Schopenhauer’s philosophy and its inherent aporias. It is divided into four parts. The first section delves into the pietistic upbringin …

The purpose of this anthology is to bring together in one volume some of the texts published in the series ‘Werkprofile’, which focus on Kant’s relationship to his philosophical contemporaries and pr …

The place (or absence) of God in Nietzsche’s thought remains central and controversial. Nietzsche’s proclamation of ‘the death of God’ is one of the most famous (and parodied) slogans in modern philo …

The question of Nietzsche’s use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The contributors of this book re-situate debates around the notion of difference, in relation to historical and schol …

Before now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the multiple relations between A. Comte’s and J.S. Mill’s positive philosophy and Franz Brentano’s work. The present volume aims to fill this g …

The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality. Papers by renowned philosop …

Nietzsche says ‘good Europeans’ must not only cultivate a ‘supra-national’ view, but also ‘supra-European’ perspective to transcend their European biases and see beyond the horizon of Western culture …

The idea of a final end of human conduct – the highest good – plays an important role in Kant’s philosophy. Unlike his predecessors Kant defines the highest good as a combination of two heterogeneous …

The collective focus of the essays here presented consists of the attempt to overcome the deadlock between metaphysical and non- (or anti-) metaphysical Hegel interpretations. There is no doubt that …