HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Loading...

German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2010)

by Andrew Bowie

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingConversations
1362199,653 (3.4)None
German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. This introduction discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the most revealing responses to the problems of modernity. Including many significant German philosophers, & other more neglected thinkers, he provides an insight into German philosophical traditions.… (more)
None
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

Showing 2 of 2
If you make a book titled "German philosophy" I expect you to have something poignant to say, some underlying theme. This doesn't have, it's just a collection of philosophical musings that just happen to have originated in Germany... ( )
  AlienIndie | May 20, 2016 |
A good overview of German philosophy that provides the lay of the land. I'm kind of surprised Kant only got one chapter, but then Oxford has another Very Short Intro for him. I appreciated that the author discussed current (as of 2010) German philosophy. ( )
1 vote pmackey | Jun 3, 2011 |
Showing 2 of 2
no reviews | add a review

Belongs to Series

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
First words
German philosophy has a sometimes deserved reputation for being both impenetrable and excessively speculative, and much of it effectively disappeared from view in the Anglo-American philosophical world from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Quotations
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. This introduction discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the most revealing responses to the problems of modernity. Including many significant German philosophers, & other more neglected thinkers, he provides an insight into German philosophical traditions.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (3.4)
0.5
1
1.5
2 1
2.5
3
3.5 2
4 2
4.5
5

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 203,292,511 books! | Top bar: Always visible