Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series considers influential figures and movements in this key period in philosophy. It covers studies of individual authors, as well as the principal philosophical developments and debates of the era.
The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition
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By Jacob Blumenfeld
May 05, 2025
This book provides a detailed account of the role of property in German Idealism. It puts the concept of property in the center of the philosophical systems of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel and shows how property remains tied to their conceptions of freedom, right, and recognition. The book begins with a...
Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character
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By Alberto L. Siani
December 18, 2024
This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology. It addresses the presence of the past character of art in both Hegel and contemporary ...
Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent: From Philosophy of Nature to Environmental Ethics
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By Daniele Fulvi
December 18, 2024
This book offers a cutting-edge interpretation of the philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling by critically reconsidering the interpretations of some of his “successors.” It argues that Schelling’s philosophy should be read as an ontology of immanence, highlighting its relevance for ongoing debates on ...
Kierkegaard and Bioethics
1st Edition
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By Johann-Christian Põder
October 09, 2024
This book explores Kierkegaard’s significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates. A bioethics inspired by Kierkegaard is not focused primarily on ethical codes, principles, or cases, but on the existential 'how' of ...
Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy
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By Luca Corti, Johannes-Georg Schülein
August 26, 2024
This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the relevance of naturalism and theories of nature in Classical German Philosophy. It presents new readings from internationally renowned scholars on Kant, Jacobi, Goethe, the Romantic tradition, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Marx that ...
Nietzsche as Metaphysician
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By Justin Remhof
August 26, 2024
This book defends the controversial view that Nietzsche is a metaphysician against a long-standing tendency to sever Nietzsche from metaphysical philosophy. Remhof presents a metametaphysical treatment of Nietzsche’s writings to show that for Nietzsche the questions, answers, methods, and subject...
Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings
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By Ivan Boldyrev, Sebastian Stein
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of Hegel’s Phenomenology face an abundance of interpretive literature devoted to this difficult text and confront a plethora of different philosophical ...
Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect
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By Wojciech Kaftanski
January 29, 2024
This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard’s idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis. Taking mimesis as a crucial conceptual point of reference in reading Kierkegaard, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the relation between aesthetics and religion in his ...
Hegel’s Encyclopedic System
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By Sebastian Stein, Joshua Wretzel
September 25, 2023
This book discusses the most comprehensive of Hegel’s works: his long-neglected Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. It contains original essays by internationally renowned and emerging voices in Hegel scholarship. Their contributions elucidate fundamental aspects of Hegel’s ...
Kantian Legacies in German Idealism
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By Gerad Gentry
September 25, 2023
Scholarship on Immanuel Kant and the German Idealists often attends to the points of divergence. While differences are vital, this volume does the opposite, offering a close inspection of some of the key Kantian concepts that are embraced and retained by the Idealists. It does this by bringing ...
Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy
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By Patrick Hassan
September 25, 2023
This volume brings together internationally recognised Schopenhauer scholars to develop new perspectives on his moral philosophy. Despite anticipating and engaging with many of the arguments now recognisable in Anglophone moral philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer has often been overlooked as a ...
Hegel and the Frankfurt School
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By Paul Giladi
January 09, 2023
This collection of original essays discusses the relationship between Hegel and the Frankfurt School Critical Theory tradition. The book’s aim is to take stock of this fascinating, complex, and complicated relationship. The volume is divided into five parts: Part I focuses on dialectics and ...