Author: Frederick C. Beiser

After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination across the ...

After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination across the ...

This is the first full study in English of the German historicist tradition. Frederick C. Beiser surveys the major German thinkers on history from ...

The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part because they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy and the art...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason ev...

Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially th...

Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half--when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By con...

Frederick C. Beiser tells the story of the emergence of neo-Kantianism from the late 1790s until the 1880s. He focuses on neo-Kantianism before off...