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2 unusual facts about German idealism


German idealism

George Santayana had strongly–held opinions regarding this attempt to overcome the effects of Kant's transcendental idealism.

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Broadly speaking, the story invokes the topsy-turvy relationship between “Sein” und “Schein” (being and appearance), a mainstay of 19th-century German idealism, that Kafka likes to complicate throughout his writng.


Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis

The main goal of the Ljubljana School was to re-interpret Marxism by emphasizing the rootedness of Karl Marx's thought in the tradition of German idealism.

Mladen Dolar

Dolar was the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek and Rastko Močnik, of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the philosophy of German idealism.


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