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47Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and LotzeOxford University Press. 2013.Frederick C. Beiser presents the first book to be written on two of the most important idealist philosophers in Germany after Hegel: Adolf Trendelenburg and Rudolf Lotze. Beiser addresses every aspect of their philosophy-- logic, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics--and traces their intellectual development from their youth until their death
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4Hegel's historicismIn Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 270--300. 1993.
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1The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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2HistoricismIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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34The sovereignty of reason: the defense of rationality in the early English EnlightenmentPrinceton University Press. 1996.The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues that the main threat to the authority of reason in seventeenth-century England came not only from dissident groups but chiefly from the Protestant theology of the Churc…Read more
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86Diotima's children: German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to LessingOxford University Press. 2009.Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century.
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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry Pinkard's article on Hegel's life, a conspectus of …Read more
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9CHAPTER 5. Enthusiasmus TriumphatusIn The sovereignty of reason: the defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment, Princeton University Press. pp. 184-219. 1996.
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273Normativity in Neo‐Kantianism: Its Rise and FallInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (1). 2009.This article discusses the historical background to the concept of normativity which has a wide use in contemporary philosophy. It locates the origin of that concept in the Southwestern Neo-Kantian school, the writings of Windelband, Rickert and Lask. The Southwestern school made the concept of normativity central to epistemology, ethics and the interpretation of German idealism. It was their solution to the threats of psycologism and historicism. However, Windelband, Rickert and Lask found diff…Read more
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15INTRODUCTION. The Problem of the English EnlightenmentIn The sovereignty of reason: the defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-19. 1996.
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15Hegel, A Non-Metaphysician? A Polemic: Review Of H T Englehardt And T Pinkard Eds., Hegel Reconsidered: Beyond Metaphysics And The Authoritarian State (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 1-13. 1995.
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256. Weimar Philosophy and the Fate of Neo-KantianismIn John P. McCormick & Peter E. Gordon (eds.), Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, Princeton University Press. pp. 115-132. 2013.
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10German idealism: the struggle against subjectivism, 1781-1801 /Frederick C. BeiserHarvard University Press. 2002.One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism as a doctrine, Frederick Beiser exposes a strong objective, or realist, strain running from Kant to Hegel and identifies the crucial role of the early romantics—Hölderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis—as the founders of absolute idealism.
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8CHAPTER 1. The Protestant ChallengeIn The sovereignty of reason: the defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment, Princeton University Press. pp. 20-45. 1996.
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90Schiller as philosopher: a re-examinationOxford University Press. 2005.Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world's leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that Schiller's engagement with Kant is far more subtle and rewarding than is often portrayed. Promising to be a landmark in the study of German thought, Schiller as Philosopher will be compulsory reading for any philosopher, historian, or literary sc…Read more
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3Moral faith and the highest goodIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 588-629. 2006.
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53Herbart's MonadologyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6): 1056-1073. 2015.This article is an introduction to Herbart's monadology. It discusses the fundamental concepts of his monadology and its similarity to Leibniz's monadology. A final section discusses the vexed question of Herbart's realism. It is argued that Herbart is more a transcendental idealist than a realist
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45HegelRoutledge. 2002.Hegel is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex ideas, though rewarding, are often misunderstood. In this magisterial and lucid introduction, Frederick Beiser covers every major aspect of Hegel's thought. He places Hegel in the historical context of nineteen…Read more
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115The fate of reason: German philosophy from Kant to FichteHarvard University Press. 1987.The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy.
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19CHAPTER 7. Ethical RationalismIn The sovereignty of reason: the defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment, Princeton University Press. pp. 266-322. 1996.
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14PrefaceIn The sovereignty of reason: the defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment, Princeton University Press. 1996.
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73Hegel and NaturphilosophieStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1): 135-147. 2003.Against current non-metaphysical interpretations, I argue that Naturphilosophie is central to Hegel’s philosophy. This is so for three reasons. First, it was crucial to Hegel’s program to create a holistic culture. Second, Naturphilosophie is pivotal to absolute idealism, Hegel’s characteristic philosophical doctrine. Third, the idea of organic development, so central to Naturphilosophie, is pervasive throughout Hegel’s system. This idea is essential to Hegel’s concepts of spirit, dialectic, and…Read more
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42Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900Oxford University Press UK. 2016.Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living, and was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer. Frederick C. Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer's pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in Germany away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. He examines the …Read more
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33German Idealism. The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801Filosoficky Casopis 51 (449): 338-344. 2002.
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The paradox of romantic metaphysicsIn Nikolas Kompridis (ed.), Philosophical Romanticism, Routledge. 2004.
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