Michael N. Forster (Editor) - The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford Handbooks)

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JEAN-FRANOIS KERVGAN

JANE KNELLER

ULRICH SCHLSSER

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LYDIA PATTON

KURT BAYERTZ

SONGSUK SUSAN HAHN

CLAUDIA WIRSING

CHRISTIAN SPAHN

KRISTIN GJESDAL

DOUGLAS L. BERGER

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JESSICA N. BERRY

JOHN H. ZAMMITO

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TODD GOOCH

Andreas Arndt is Professor (chair) of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology of the Humboldt-University, Berlin, and Director and Research-Coordinator of the Schleiermacher-Research-Center at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Born in 1949 in Wilhelmshaven (Lower Saxony), he studied Philosophy and German literature in Freiburg i.Br., Bochum, and Bielefeld; MA Bochum 1974, PhD Bielefeld 1979, habilitation at the Free University Berlin 1987, from 1987 to 2011 Associated Professor (Privatdozent) resp. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Free University; Research Assistant at the Schleiermacher-Research-Center from 1979 to 2011. President of the International Hegel Society from 1992 to present. His latest book-publications include Die Klassische Deutsche Philosophie nach Kant (with Walter Jaeschke, C. H. Beck, 2012) and Friedrich Schleiermacher als Philosoph (Walter de Gruyter, 2013).

Kurt Bayertz studied Philosophy, German Literature, and Social Siences. Since 1993 he is Professor for Philosophy at the University of Mnster (Germany). His main fields of interest are: ethics, anthropology, and selected parts of the history of philosophy (among them materialism). His books include: GenEthics. Technological Intervention in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem (Cambridge University Press 1994. (ed.)), Solidarity (Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999), Warum berhaupt moralisch sein? (C. H. Beck 2004), and Der aufrechte Gang. Eine Geschichte des anthropologischen Denkens (C. H. Beck 2012).

Frederick Beiser was born and raised in the US but received his education in the UK at Oriel College (BA) and Wolfson College (DPhil), Oxford. He immigrated to West Germany in 1980, where from 1980 to 1984 he spent most of his time writing in his Hinterhof. Subsequently, he wandered around the US, teaching at seven universities: Penn, Indiana, Yale, Wisconsin, Colorado, Harvard, and Syracuse. He has currently settled in Syracuse where he cultivates his garden. Recently, he has written two books on nineteenth-century philosophy: The German Historicist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Late German Idealism (Oxford University Press, 2013). He has recently finished a manuscript entitled The Origins and Genesis of Neo-Kantianism.

Douglas L. Berger is Associate Professor of Indian and Chinese Philosophical Traditions and Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics at the Philosophy Department of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is also the President of the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy and the General Editor of the University of Hawaii book series Dimensions of Asian Spirituality. Berger, the author of numerous essays and book chapters on Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist philosophers, has also done extensive research on Schopenhauers appropriation of early Indian ideas, represented in his 2004 book The Veil of My: Schopenhauers System and Early Indian Thought (Global Academic Publications/SUNY).

Jessica N. Berry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she works on late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century German philosophy (especially issues in epistemology and value theory in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche) and in ancient Greek philosophy (especially the pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers). Her book Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011), finished with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings together and expands upon work she has published in Philosophical Topics, The Journal of the History of Ideas, International Studies in Philosophy, and elsewhere.

Patricia A. Blanchette is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Freges Conception of Logic (Oxford University Press 2012), as well as a number of articles on Frege, on the philosophy of logic and mathematics, and on the history of analytic philosophy.

Andrew Bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include: Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche (Manchester University Press, 1990, 20032); Schelling and Modern European Philosophy (Routledge, 1993); (ed. and trans.) F.W.J. von Schelling,On the History of Modern Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1994); From Romanticism to Critical Theory. The Philosophy of German Literary Theory (Routledge 1997); (ed.) Manfred Frank, The Subject and the Text