Debates in Nineteenth Century Philosophy ― Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses

Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy offers an engaging and in-depth introduction to the philosophical questions raised by this rich and far reaching period in the history of philosophy. Throughout thirty chapters (organized around fifteen individual philosophers), the volume surveys the intellectual contributions of European philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, but it also engages the on-going debates about how these contributions can and should be understood. As such, the volume provides both an overview of Nineteenth-Century European philosophy and an introduction to contemporary scholarship in this field.

Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Her work covers the areas of post-Kantian philosophy (especially hermeneutics and phenomenology), aesthetics, and enlightenment thought. She is the author ofGadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (2009) and the editor (with Michael Forster) of theOxford Handbook to German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century.