Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas: An Annotated German-Language Reader Contributor(s): de Berg, Henk (Editor), Large, Duncan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571133542 ISBN-13: 9781571133540 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 016.193 |
LCCN: 2012025072 |
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.40 lbs) 408 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - Modern |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an introduction charting the remarkable flowering of German-language thought since the eighteenth century, it offers extracts - in the original German - from sixteen major philosophical texts, with extensive introductions and annotations in English. All extracts are carefully chosen to introduce the individual thinkers while allowing the reader to pursue broader themes such as the fate of reason or the history of modern selfhood. The book offers students and scholars of German a complement to linguistic, historical, and literary study by giving them access to the wealth of German-language philosophy. It represents a new way into the work of a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and thus remain of crucial relevance today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Large, Duncan: - Senior Lecturer in German at University of Wales Swansea.de Berg, Henk: - Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. |