Professor Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Richard Wagner. The German universities of his youth were in a state of intellectual ferment in the aftermath of ...

Paul Franks, who specializes in Jewish philosophy, German Idealism, the work of Immanuel Kant, metaphysics and epistemology, and the philosophy of the human sciences, has been appointed the Robert F.

Robert Stern’s contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy on the broad subject of Hegel’s idealism is an effort to sort out precisely what the great German ...

I specialize in German Idealism (especially Hegel) and 20th century phenomenology. Prior to joining Boston College, I held a Humboldt Fellowship for Senior Researchers at the Universityof Cologne.

In 1952 the British don Isaiah Berlin delivered a series of radio lectures for the BBC titled “Freedom and Its Betrayal.” Each discussed a particular philosophical “enemy of human liberty.” Delivered ...

The epochal Battle of Jena was fought on Oct. 14, 1806. A massive French army under Napoleon cut off Prussian and Saxon troops from access to the Elbe River and from possible Russian reinforcements.

It is difficult to imagine a more ambitious or even hubristic philosophy than that of G.W.F. Hegel. Filled with the revolutionary fervor of the turn of the 19th century, Hegel no doubt viewed himself ...

Edris Ranji has translated the book and Qoqnoos Publishing House has brought it out in 520 pages, IRNA reported. Do the various forms of literary theory - deconstruction, Marxism, new historicism, ...