Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany write by F. Gregory. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive study of German materialism in the second half of the nineteenth century is long overdue. Among contemporary historians the mere passing references to Karl Vogt, Jacob Moleschott, and Ludwig Buchner as materialists and popularizers of science are hardly sufficient, for few individuals influenced public opinion in nineteenth-century Germany more than these men. Buchner, for example, revealed his awareness of the historical significance of his Kraft und Stoff in comments made in 1872, just seventeen years after its original appearance. A philosophical book which has undergone twelve big German editions in the short span of seventeen years, which further has been issued in non-German countries and languages about fifteen to sixteen times in the same period, and whose appearance (although its author was entirely unknown up to then) has called forth an almost unprecedented storm in the press, . . . such a book can be nothing ordinary; the world-calling it enjoys at present must be justified through its wholly special characteristics or by the merits of its form and content. ' Vogt, Moleschott and Buchner explicitly held that their materialism was founded on natural science. But other materialists of the nineteenth century also laid claim to the scientific character of their own thought. It is likely that Marx and Engels would have permitted their brand of materialism to have been called scientific, provided, of course, that 'scientific' was understood in their dialectical meaning of the term. Socialism, Engels maintained, had become a science with Marx.
Scientific materialism in 19th century Germany
Scientific materialism in 19th century Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific materialism in 19th century Germany write by Frederick Gregory. This book was released on 1977. Scientific materialism in 19th century Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Scientific materialism in nineteenth century Germany
Scientific materialism in nineteenth century Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific materialism in nineteenth century Germany write by Frederick Gregory. This book was released on 1977. Scientific materialism in nineteenth century Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany
Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany write by Frederick George Gregory. This book was released on 1973. Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
After Hegel
After Hegel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Hegel write by Frederick C. Beiser. This book was released on 2016-09-13. After Hegel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half—when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. But Frederick Beiser argues that the second half of the century was in fact one of the most revolutionary periods in modern philosophy because the nature of philosophy itself was up for grabs and the very absence of certainty led to creativity and the start of a new era. In this innovative concise history of German philosophy from 1840 to 1900, Beiser focuses not on themes or individual thinkers but rather on the period’s five great debates: the identity crisis of philosophy, the materialism controversy, the methods and limits of history, the pessimism controversy, and the Ignorabimusstreit. Schopenhauer and Wilhelm Dilthey play important roles in these controversies but so do many neglected figures, including Ludwig Büchner, Eugen Dühring, Eduard von Hartmann, Julius Fraunstaedt, Hermann Lotze, Adolf Trendelenburg, and two women, Agnes Taubert and Olga Pluemacher, who have been completely forgotten in histories of philosophy. The result is a wide-ranging, original, and surprising new account of German philosophy in the critical period between Hegel and the twentieth century.
