The Sociology of Philosophies

CHAPTER 12 £ Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution The period from 1765 to the present is i ...

of small numbers; prominent movements acquired rivals, some settling in the gaps with hybrid doctrines such as vitalism and neo- ...

the most general (i.e., philosophical) turf itself. This is one reason why, despite so many pronouncements to the contrary, mode ...

partisan judgment by an active participant. Others who greatly impressed their contemporaries were James Martineau (Merz, [1904– ...

the mist of the near-present, even as the network now becoming visible in the middle distance begins to take on familiar contour ...

layer, but the core which transmutes them into philosophy is the ongoing struggle in intellectual space. The Network and Its Con ...

FIGURE 12.1. GERMAN NETWORK, 1735–1835: BERLIN–KÖNIGSBERG AND JENA–WEIMAR ...

Königsberg but Weimar as well. If there were also centers of religious reaction, like Bavaria (and for short periods Prussia its ...

prize with his theory of the origins of language. Herder made his mark before his own teacher, and prepared the way for the move ...

organizational leader who assembles the material conditions for members to work (Mullins, 1973). Goethe combined both roles. The ...

tion of church and state. The 1769 incident made an attention center out of the cleavage between rationalist Deists and sentimen ...

Jacobi leaves a strong impression of a man wanting above all to be in the center of intellectual action, at whatever cost to per ...

of animator of other figures upon the stage. Jacobi’s own solution to the thing-in-itself was merely to declare it an item of mi ...

Controversial attention recruited new waves to the movement. In the late 1780s the Tübingen theological Stift, the main center o ...

most of the time, delivering his famous Addresses to the German Nation in 1807 at the Berlin Academy of Sciences to an audience ...

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) used Romanticist enthusiasm to combat Enlightenment rationalism. The Berl ...

Then Schelling’s 15-year flareup of creativity in the center of public atten- tion abruptly ended. After breaking with the Ideal ...

In 1807 Hegel published his Phenomenology of Spirit, which develops Fichte’s dialectics as applied to the historical unfolding o ...

Idealism was ignored in Germany, but managed to attract attention among liberal reformers in Spain. Doubtless because of the cru ...

Schopenhauer was exposed to Goethe.^13 The young Schopenhauer made a favorable impression on the aging Wieland, whose journal ha ...