Specialty in philosophy, focused on German language origin
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From left to right: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor W. Adorno, Karl Marx.
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German philosophy, meaning philosophy in the German language or philosophy by German people, in its diversity, is fundamental for both the analytic and continental traditions. It covers figures such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and the Frankfurt School, who now count among the most famous and studied philosophers of all time. They are central to major philosophical movements such as rationalism, German idealism, Romanticism, dialectical materialism, existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, logical positivism, and critical theory. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is often also included in surveys of German philosophy due to his extensive engagement with German thinkers.[1][2][3][4]
^Lowith, Karl. From Hegel to Nietzsche, 1991, p. 370–375.
^Pinkard, Terry P. German philosophy, 1760–1860: the legacy of idealism, 2002, ch. 13.
^Stewart, Jon B. Kierkegaard and his German contemporaries, 2007
^Kenny, Anthony. Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy, 2001, p. 220–224.
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