Politics, Religion, And Art: Hegelian Debates (topics In Historical Philosophy)
by Douglas Moggach /
2011 / English / PDF
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The period from 1780 to 1850 witnessed an unprecedented explosion of philosophical creativity in the German territories. In the thinking of Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, and the Hegelian school, new theories of freedom and emancipation, new conceptions of culture, society, and politics, arose in rapid succession. The members of the Hegelian school, forming around Hegel in Berlin and most active in the 1830s and 1840s, are often depicted as mere epigones, whose writings are at best of historical t. In Politics, Religion, and Art: Hegelian Debates, Douglas Moggach moves the discussion past the Cold Warera dogmas that viewed the Hegelians as proto-Marxists and establishes their importance as innovators in the fields of theology, aesthetics, and ethics and as creative contributors to foundational debates about modernity, state, and society.
