Hammer - German Idealism

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Frederick C. Beiser is Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (1987); Enlightenment, Revolution, Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought (1992); German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 17811801 (2002); The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism (2003); Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination (2005); and Hegel (2005). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel.

J.M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Among his works are: The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992); Recovering Ethical Life: Jrgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2001); and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Idea of Painting (2006). He is also the editor of Classical and Romantic German Aesthetics in the Cambridge History of Philosophy series.

Andrew Bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche (1990); Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction (1993); From Romanticism to Critical Theory. The Philosophy of German Literary Theory (1997); and Introduction to German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas (2003). His book, Music, Philosophy, and Modernity, will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Swarthmore College. He is the author of On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding (1989); Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism (1997); The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature (2001); and An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (2003). He is also the editor of Stanley Cavell (2003).

Manfred Frank is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tbingen. He is the author of numerous books, among them Das Individuelle Allgemeine.Textstrukturierung und -interpretation nach Schleiermacher (1977); Was ist Neostrukturalismus? (1983); Die Grenzen der Verstndigung. Ein Geistergesprch zwischen Lyotard und Habermas (1988); and Selbstgefhl: Eine historisch-systematische Erkundung (2002).

Paul Franks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several articles on Kant and post-Kantian idealism as well as All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism (2005). He is also an Associate Editor of the International Yearbook of German Idealism.

Sebastian Gardner is Professor of Philosophy at the University College London. He is the author of Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (1993) and Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (1998). He is also the co-editor of Art and Morality (2002). His book, Fichte, Schelling and Early German Idealism, will be published by Routledge.

Espen Hammer is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He is the author of four books, including Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (2002) and Adorno and the Political (2005), and the Norwegian translator of Immanuel Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft. He is also a co-editor of