The Impact of Idealism

Nicholas Boyle is Schröder Professor of German Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College. Liz Disley is a Research Associate in the Department of German and Dutch at the University of Cambridge. John Walker is Senior Lecturer in German in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London.

Introduction: idealism in historical, social and political thought John Walker; 1. From transcendental idealism to political realism Onora O'Neill; 2. The public of the intellectuals – from Kant to Lyotard William Rasch; 3. Idealism and the idea of a constitution Chris Thornhill; 4. German Idealism and Marx Douglas Moggach; 5. Ethos, nature and education in Johann Erich von Berger and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg Steffen Wagner; 6. The concept of philosophy of culture in neo-Kantianism Stephan Nachtsheim; 7. After materialism. Reflections of idealism in Lebensphilosophie: Dilthey, Bergson and Simmel David Midgley; 8. 'Rationalisation', 'reification', 'instrumental reason' Fred Rush; 9. Freedom within nature: Adorno on the idea of reason's autonomy Brian O'Connor; 10. German neo-Hegelianism and the plea for another Hegel Andreas Grossmann; 11. Idealism and the fascist corporative state Irene Stolzi; 12. Love and recognition in Fichte, Hegel, and Simone de Beauvoir Sabine Doyé and Marion Heinz; 13. Giving an account of oneself amongst others: Hegel, Judith Butler and social ontology Liz Disley; 14. Idealism in the German tradition of meta-history Jörn Rüsen.