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3 unusual facts about German philosophy


German philosophy

He believed he found his solution in the concepts of the Übermensch and Eternal Return.

Jean Beaufret

His early philosophical interests were in 19th century German philosophy, particularly GWF Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Karl Marx.

Katō Hiroyuki

As an instructor at the Tokugawa bakufu's Bansho Shirabesho institute for researching Western science and technology from 1860–1868, he was one of the first Japanese to study German language and German philosophy.



see also

Addresses to the German Nation

The Addresses to the German Nation (Reden an die deutsche Nation, 1808) is a political literature book by German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte that advocates German nationalism in reaction to the occupation and subjugation of German territories by Napoleon's French Empire.

Burghart Schmidt

Burghart Schmidt (born November 30, 1942 in Wildeshausen, Oldenburg) is a German philosopher.

Gernot Böhme

Gernot Böhme (January 3, 1937, Dessau) is a German philosopher and author, contributing to the philosophy of science, theory of time, aesthetics, ethics, and philosophical anthropology.

R. J. Hollingdale

Hollingdale (20 October 1930 – 28 September 2001) was best known as a biographer and a translator of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, G. C. Lichtenberg, and Schopenhauer.

Westminster Review

John Oxenford's anonymous 1853 article, "Iconoclasm in German Philosophy", was translated and published in the Vossische Zeitung.