This text offers a comprehensive, penetrating and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling are all discussed in detail, together with a number of their contemporaries, such as Hslderlin and Schleiermacher, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well-known in the English-speaking world. The essays in the volume trace and explore the unifying themes of German idealism, and discuss their relationship to romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of 17th- and 18th-century Europe. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and should be useful to a wide range of readers in philosophy, German studies, theology, literature, and the history of ideas.
