Published by De Gruyter

New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy

Edited by: Dalia Nassar, Sebastian Luft and Michael Olsen

ISSN: 2364-3161

e-ISSN 2364-317X

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Volumes

This series aims to publish monographs and collected works that reconsider the history of early modern, modern, and contemporary "Western" philosophy. The editors especially encourage projects that pursue novel approaches to authors, texts, and debates in the following areas:

Historically overlooked and undervalued authors, including women, members of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and "minor" figures whose contributions illuminate philosophical movements, themes, and topics in new ways.

Relations between philosophy and its broader contexts. Philosophy takes shape in relation to the economic, political, religious, and social dimensions of the lives of individuals and communities in which it emerges. New studies in the history of philosophy will both benefit from detailed investigation into how these dimensions of human life have informed the trajectory of philosophy and expand our understanding of how philosophy has historically situated itself within culture and society more generally.

Relations between philosophy and adjacent disciplines. Since modern disciplinary divisions are a product of the nineteenth century, studies of the history of philosophy that examine how philosophers drew on resources and pursued questions in what appears today to be multi- or transdisciplinary ways are essential for grasping the history of the discipline in its own terms.

New historiographical methods and commitments that bring the history of philosophy into productive conversation with other historical disciplines and pursuits. Feminist, decolonial, environmental, and global histories, to name only a few, promise to expand our understanding of the history of ideas and their legacies and reverberations in the modern world.

The historiography of philosophy. In addition to reconsiderations of the history of philosophy with new historiographical tools, we seek projects that focus more squarely on the philosophical stakes of historical methodology itself and that advance new critical reflections on the methods employed in writing the history of philosophy.

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Book 2023

Hermann Lotze's Influence on Twentieth Century Philosophy

Nikolay Milkov

Volume 12 in this series

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Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the 19^th century, influencing practically all leading philosophical schools of the late 19th and the early 20th century: (i) the neo-Kantians; (ii) Brentano and his school of descriptive psychology; (iii) the British idealists; (iv) Husserl’s phenomenology; (v) Dilthey’s philosophy of life; (vi) Frege’s new logic; (vii) the early Cambridge analytic philosophy; (viii) William James’s pragmatism. The book first presents the main ideas of Hermann Lotze’s philosophy (Part I), and then traces his influence on the descriptive psychology of Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf (Part 2) and Cambridge analytic philosophy (Part 3). In addition, the book includes Bertrand Russell’s conspectus of J. E. McTaggart’s 1898 lectures on Lotze.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726282
ISBN:: 9783110726282
ISBN:: 9783110726817
ISBN:: 9783110726381
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Analytical Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Russian Neo-Kantianism

Emergence, Dissemination, and Dissolution

Thomas Nemeth

Volume 10 in this series

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This, the first in-depth and comprehensive book-length study of the Russian neo-Kantian movement in English language, challenges the assumption of the isolation of neo-Kantianism to Germany. The present investigation demonstrates that neo-Kantianism had an international dimension by showing the emergence of a parallel movement in Imperial Russia spanning its emergence in the late 19th century to its gradual dissolution in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. The author presents a systematic portrait of the development of Russian neo-Kantianism starting with its rise as a philosophy of science. However, it was with the stream of young students returning to Imperial Russia after a period of study at German universities that the movement accelerated. More often than not, these enthusiastic, young philosophers returned home imbued with the neo-Kantianism of their respective but divergent host institutions. As a result, clashes were inevitable concerning the proper approach to philosophical issues as well as the very understanding of Kant's philosophy and his legacy for contemporary thought. In the end, the broad promise of a Western-oriented neo-Kantianism could not withstand the pressures it confronted on all sides.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755404
ISBN:: 9783110755404
ISBN:: 9783111358291
ISBN:: 9783110755534
ISBN:: 9783110755350
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: History of Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neokantianism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2023

Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School

Elisabeth Theresia Widmer

Volume 13 in this series

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Widmer sheds light on a neglected aspect of the Western philosophical tradition. Following an era of Hegelianism, the members of the neo-Kantian "Marburg School," such as Friedrich Albert Lange, Hermann Cohen, Rudolf Stammler, Paul Natorp, and Ernst Cassirer defended socialism or left-wing ideals on Kantian principles.

In doing so, Widmer breaks with two mistaken assumptions. First, Widmer demonstrates that the left-Hegelian and Marxist traditions were not the only significant philosophical sources of socialist critique in nineteenth-century Germany, as the left-Kantians identified problems of normativity that the left-Hegelians could not adequately address.

Second, Widmer challenges the prevailing assumption that the political philosophies developed in the Marburg School can be comprehensively characterized as a unified school of "ethical socialism." By showing that they varied fundamentally regarding their political views and their philosophical foundations of socialism, Widmer fills a gap in the studies of neo-Kantianism that is long overdue.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331843
ISBN:: 9783111331843
ISBN:: 9783111331775
ISBN:: 9783111331904
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World

The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran

Anna Bortolan, Elisa Magrì

Volume 9 in this series

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The volume gathers together over twenty contributions that emerged from a conference held in in honour of Dermot Moran on the occasion of his retirement from University College Dublin. The book explores the contribution of phenomenology to empathy, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and the constitution of the cultural and social world, from both a historical and an applied philosophical perspective. Theoretical and methodological differences in approach notwithstanding, phenomenologists have converged in the recognition that self and others are fundamentally related, and have provided fine-grained accounts of the origin, forms, and implications of such relationship. The volume critically reconstructs and further develops central aspects of this body of research within a pluralistic framework. It offers a renewed investigation of the work of classical phenomenologists like Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as an original application of phenomenological concepts and theories to contemporary discussions on intentionality, culture, emotions, and morality. The book provides insights for scholars in phenomenological philosophy as well as in philosophy of mind and interpersonal and social experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698787
ISBN:: 9783110698787
ISBN:: 9783111355542
ISBN:: 9783110698886
ISBN:: 9783110698633
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Phenomenology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Kant on Emotions

Critical Essays in the Contemporary Context

Mariannina Failla, Nuria Sánchez Madrid

Volume 8 in this series

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Kant’s account of emotions has only recently begun to receive the attention that this topic deserves, as it casts new light over the manifold features of transcendental philosophy. The authors expand the contemporary overview of the Kantian treatment from both a neuroscientific and a continental philosophical perspective. The volume opens paths to reevaluate neglected aspects of the Kantian model of human rationality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720730
ISBN:: 9783110720730
ISBN:: 9783111266022
ISBN:: 9783110720747
ISBN:: 9783110720716
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

The Genesis of the Symbolic

On the Beginnings of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture

Arno Schubbach, D.J. Hobbs

Volume 7 in this series

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Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on the basis of Cassirer’s ‘disposition’ of a ‘philosophy of the symbolic’, reconstructed here for the first time. This text shows that the ‘symbolic’ refers to culture as a whole and to its inherent diversity.

Therefore, ‘the symbolic’ includes the relationship between the general transcendental conditions of culture and its empirical specificities in language and languages, art and the arts, myth and myths, science and disciplines. Cassirer does not comprehend this empirical and specific reality of symbolization depending on pre-existing transcendental conditions. Instead, he proceeds from the empirical diversity of the symbolisations and reflects on their simultaneously general and specific conditions.

Thus, Cassirer embarks on a path that he finds paved in Kant’s "Critique of Judgement": He consequently defines ‘the symbolic’ as the horizon for a reflective approach based on empirical findings – and not as the foundation of a systematic derivation of the diversity of culture in the style of the idealistic tradition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623635
ISBN:: 9783110623635
ISBN:: 9783110607024
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Exceeding Reason

Freedom and Religion in Schelling and Nietzsche

Dennis Vanden Auweele

Volume 6 in this series

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The work of the later Schelling (in and after 1809) seems antithetical to that of Nietzsche: one a Romantic, idealist and Christian, the other Dionysian, anti-idealist and anti-Christian. Still, there is a very meaningful and educative dialogue to be found between Schelling and Nietzsche on the topics of reason, freedom and religion. Both of them start their philosophy with a similar critique of the Western tradition, which to them is overly dualist, rationalist and anti-organic (metaphysically, ethically, religiously, politically). In response, they hope to inculcate a more lively view of reality in which a new understanding of freedom takes center stage. This freedom can be revealed and strengthened through a proper approach to religion, one that neither disconnects from nor subordinates religion to reason. Religion is the dialogical other to reason, one that refreshes and animates our attempts to navigate the world autonomously. In doing so, Schelling and Nietzsche open up new avenues of thinking about (the relationship between) freedom, reason and religion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618112
ISBN:: 9783110618112
ISBN:: 9783110618457
ISBN:: 9783110617757
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Beyond the Babylonian Trauma

Theories of Language and Modern Culture in the German-Jewish Context

Gerald Hartung

Volume 5 in this series

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Hartung works out both the linguistic and philosophy of language setting as well as socio-political and cultural implications of the radical critique of language developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by philosophers as diverse as Steinthal, Cohen, Simmel or Cassirer. He argues that the theories pleaded for a plurality of linguistic and cultural forms as well as for a new logic beyond the traditional nature/culture partition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110603842
ISBN:: 9783110603842
ISBN:: 9783110602715
ISBN:: 9783110601671
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy

Gerald Hartung, Colin Guthrie King, Christof Rapp

Volume 4 in this series

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Aristotelian philosophy played an important part in the history of 19th century philosophy and science but has been largely neglected by researchers. A key element in the newly emerging historiography of ancient philosophy, Aristotelian philosophy served at the same time as a corrective guide in a wide range of projects in philosophy. This volume examines both aspects of this reception history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110570014
ISBN:: 9783110570014
ISBN:: 9783110568356
ISBN:: 9783110568493
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy

Winfried Schröder

Volume 3 in this series

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Since its publication in 1952, Leo Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing has stirred considerable controversy, particularly among historians concerned with early modern philosophy. On the one hand, several scholars share his view that it would be inadequate to generally take at face value the explicit message of texts which were composed in an era in which severe sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views. ‘Reading between the lines’ therefore seems to be the appropriate hermeneutical approach. On the other hand, the risks of such an interpretative maxim are more than obvious, as it might come up to an unlimited license to ascribe heterodox doctrines to early modern philosophers whose manifest teachings were in harmony with the orthodox positions of their time. The conributions to this volume both address these methodological issues and discuss paradigmatic cases of authors who might indeed be candidates for a Straussian ‘reading between the lines’: Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424294
ISBN:: 9783110427493
ISBN:: 9783110424294
ISBN:: 9783110424379
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

A Novel Assessment

J Tyler Friedman, Sebastian Luft

Volume 2 in this series

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This volume brings Cassirer’s work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421811
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041954-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042181-1
ISBN:: 9783110554779
ISBN:: 9783110421835
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neokantianism
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

From Hegel to Windelband

Historiography of Philosophy in the 19th Century

Gerald Hartung, Valentin Pluder

Volume 1 in this series

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In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent project. On the one hand, we find an affirmative concept of Bildung through tradition and historical insight; on the other, there arises a critical reflection on historical education in the light of an emerging critique of modern culture. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the debate.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324822
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032448-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032482-2
ISBN:: 9783110554540
ISBN:: 9783110389869
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Publisher:: De Gruyter