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This module examines the development of Post-Kantian German Idealism which straddled the 18th and 19th centuries, from about the 1780s into the 1840s, paying particular attention to central ideas elaborated by three of its most well-known thinkers: Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), the latter achieving greatest prominence among the idealists. Hegel, however, has had and still has many interpreters, supporters, whether Left-wing Hegelians or Right-wing Hegelians, and many detractors; so, some attention, towards the end of the module, will be given to what has come to be known as the materialist critique of Hegel’s “Absolute Idealism”, critiques famously elaborated by Feuerbach and Marx, and to the existentialist critique of Kierkegaard.
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GERMAN IDEALISM
