The volume comprises selections from the major work of Kant,
Schopenhauer, and Hegel, as well as from Fichte and Schelling, some of
whose writings are translated here for the first time. The volume
comprises selections from the major work of Kant, Schopenhauer, and
Hegel, as well as from Fichte and Schelling, some of whose writings are
translated here for the first time. It thus provides a much fuller
context for the German Idealist movement than has been hitherto
available in any comparable form in English. The texts reveal aesthetic
philosophy and literary criticism not as abstract of peripheral
disciplines but as absolutely central topics in the mainstream of German
Idealist thought. Dr Simpson's introduction places the writers and their
work in an appropriate intellectual context, and his extensive
annotation seeks to clarify and render more accessible their complex and
often elusive ideas.