Johann Friedrich Herbart - Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy

This is the first intellectual biography of Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. He was an influential critic of idealism and an important forerunner of analytic philosophy.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Early Years


• 2: The Jena Years


• 3: Swiss Years, 1797-1799


• 4: Bremen Years, 1800-1802


• 5: Early Years in Göttingen


• 6: Three Major Works, 1806-1807


• 7: Practical Philosophy


• 8: First Decade in Königsberg, 1809-1819


• 9: An Important Compendium


• 10: Herbart and Prussian Educational Reform


• 11: Herbart's Psychology


• 12: General Metaphysics


• 13: Return to Göttingen

About the author

Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the USA. He studied in the UK at Oriel College and Wolfson College, Oxford, and then in Germany for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung during that time. He has taught in many universities in the USA including Yale, Harvard, Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Indiana. Beiser is currently professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, New York. In 2015 President Joachim Gauck awarded him the Bundesverdienstkreuz (the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for his work on German philosophy.

Summary

This is the first intellectual biography of Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. He was an influential critic of idealism and an important forerunner of analytic philosophy.

Additional text

Beiser (Syracuse Univ.) has written an outstanding biography of Herbart, who was the first to regard philosophy as the analysis of concepts.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick C. Beiser, Frederick C. (Professor of Philosophy Beiser
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780192849854
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284985-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: logic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism