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The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible. German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an introduction charting the remarkable flowering of German-language thought since the eighteenth century, it offers extracts - in the original German - from sixteen major philosophical texts, with extensive introductions and annotations in English. All extracts are carefully chosen to introduce the individual thinkers while allowing the reader to pursue broader themes such as the fate of reason or the history of modern selfhood. The book offers students and scholars of German a complement to linguistic, historical, andliterary study by giving them access to the wealth of German-language philosophy. It represents a new way into the work of a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and thus remain of crucial relevance today. The philosophers: Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas. Henk de Berg is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield. Duncan Large is Professor of European Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia.

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Author:   Henk de Berg ,  Duncan Large
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Volume:   v. 122
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781571133540

ISBN 10:   1571133542
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   01 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   Germanic languages

Table of Contents

"Introduction: German Thought since Kant ""Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?"" (1784, Kant) Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage (1787, Kant) Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1821, Hegel) Das Wesen des Christentums (1841, Feuerbach) Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. 2: ""Von der Nichtigkeit und dem Leiden des Lebens"" (1844, Schopenhauer) ""Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie. Einleitung"" (1844, Marx) ""Thesen über Feuerbach"" (1845, Marx) Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie. Vorwort (1859, Marx) Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert (1889, Nietzsche) Über Psychoanalyse (1910, Freud) Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1930, Freud) Sein und Zeit (1927, Heidegger) Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (1939, Benjamin) ""Einführung in die ästhetischen Schriften von Marx und Engels"" (1946, Lukács) Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente (1944/47, Horkheimer and Adorno) ""Die Moderne -- ein unvollendetes Projekt"" (1980, Habermas)"

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Henk de Berg and Duncan Large have had the inspired idea to put together a reader of important philosophical texts in the original German, together with introductions and annotations. Their collection can play an important role in helping the anglophone reader to break free from dependence on translations and to engage the original texts. The selections are carefully chosen and helpfully introduced, and cover a wide swath of modern German thought. One hopes that this valuable initiative will be the first of many such volumes. - Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought and Philosophy, University of Chicago This is an excellent collection of texts by German thinkers - from Kant and Hegel to Adorno and Habermas - who have exercised unparalleled influence on the modern world. The texts are well chosen and contain each thinker's most distinctive ideas. The introductions are lucid and informative, and the annotations are superb. This is a fine and very welcome resource, both for those who are able to read German but wish to familiarise themselves with modern German philosophy and for those who are already familiar with the philosophy but wish to study it in the original language. The editors are to be congratulated on their sterling work. - Stephen Houlgate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

(A)n excellent resource for putting the German language back into the study of German thought, and this effort alone is worthy of praise and attention. . . . (A)n immensely effective tool for learning important but difficult texts. (The book) would be especially valuable as a course book in a graduate-level or an advanced upper-division undergraduate course. (It) also has much to offer to scholars who are interested in reading the included thinkers in the original language or are seeking an in-depth look at one of the selected texts. FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES (An) excellent collection . . . . (The introduction) is probably the best short account of the development of modern German philosophy. . . . This thought-provoking introduction should be required reading for all the critics of obscure and impenetrable German as well as any student of German language, literature, thought, and history. . . . Henk de Berg and Duncan Large have produced an excellent guide to modern German philosophy: one could not wish for a more helpful and stimulating volume. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES The philological work on display here is accurate, insightful and extremely useful for teaching. . . . This volume will be a valuable teaching collection for courses on German thought. . . . The current reviewer will certainly be using it in his second year survey course on German thought, which is the highest form of recommendation. DEUTSCH LEHREN UND LERNEN (Angus Nicholls) Henk de Berg and Duncan Large have had the inspired idea to put together a reader of important philosophical texts in the original German, together with introductions and annotations. Their collection can play an important role in helping the anglophone reader to break free from dependence on translations and to engage the original texts. The selections are carefully chosen and helpfully introduced, and cover a wide swath of modern German thought. One hopes that this valuable initiative will be the first of many such volumes. --Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought and Philosophy, University of Chicago

(A)n excellent resource for putting the German language back into the study of German thought, and this effort alone is worthy of praise and attention. . . . (A)n immensely effective tool for learning important but difficult texts. (The book) would be especially valuable as a course book in a graduate-level or an advanced upper-division undergraduate course. (It) also has much to offer to scholars who are interested in reading the included thinkers in the original language or are seeking an in-depth look at one of the selected texts. FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES (An) excellent collection . . . . (The introduction) is probably the best short account of the development of modern German philosophy. . . . This thought-provoking introduction should be required reading for all the critics of obscure and impenetrable German as well as any student of German language, literature, thought, and history. . . . Henk de Berg and Duncan Large have produced an excellent guide to modern German philosophy: one could not wish for a more helpful and stimulating volume. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES The philological work on display here is accurate, insightful and extremely useful for teaching. . . . This volume will be a valuable teaching collection for courses on German thought. . . . The current reviewer will certainly be using it in his second year survey course on German thought, which is the highest form of recommendation. DEUTSCH LEHREN UND LERNEN (Angus Nicholls)BR> Henk de Berg and Duncan Large have had the inspired idea to put together a reader of important philosophical texts in the original German, together with introductions and annotations. Their collection can play an important role in helping the anglophone reader to break free from dependence on translations and to engage the original texts. The selections are carefully chosen and helpfully introduced, and cover a wide swath of modern German thought. One hopes that this valuable initiative wiroduced, and cover a wide swath of modern German thought. One hopes that this valuable initiative will be the first of many such volumes. --Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson

Author Information

HENK DE BERG is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield. He has authored a book for Camden House (Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies, 2002, pb 2004) and co-edited two (Modern German Thought, 2012, and Tzvetan Todorov, 2020).

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