What are we talking about when we qualify something as sublime? Is it just a qualification of the beautiful in its most touching degree? Is it a qualification of something outside there anyway? Is it a feeling or a reflecting judgement on aesthetic appreciation? And can we reduc…
In 'The Tragic Absolute', David Farrell shows that German Idealist and Romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgement, especially when it comes to tragedy, are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics that previously thought.
"In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irra…
Bewusstsein/Consciousness
"The eleventh volume of the International Yearbook of German Idealism is dedicated to theme "consciousness." We have collected together essays on Kan, Jacobi, the German idealists and the early Romantics - essays that focus on the topics of consciousness, self-consciousness and …
"Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity"--Book …
