After Hegel by Beiser, Frederick C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Preface Introduction

1. A Revolutionary Half Century 2. The Standard Narratives 3. Method

1 The Identity Crisis of Philosophy

1. Sources of the Crisis 2. Trendelenburg’s PhilosoPhia Perennis 3. Philosophy as Critique 4. Schopenhauer’s Revival of Metaphysics 5. Rise and Fall of the Neo-Kantian Ideal 6. Eduard von Hartmann’s Metaphysics of the Sciences 7. Dilthey and Worldviews

2 The Materialism Controversy

1. Context and Causes 2. The Controversy Begins: Wagner versus Vogt 3. Philosophical Struwwelpeter 4. The Bible of Materialism 5. Schopenhauer Enters the Fray 6. Czolbe’s Sensualism 7. Friedrich Lange, Neo-Kantian and Materialist Manqué

3 The Ignorabimus Controversy

1. Du Bois-Reymond’s Speech: Content and Context 2. Hartmann’s Defense of Metaphysics 3. The Materialist Position 4. Lange’s Defense of Du Bois-Reymond 5. Nägeli’s Methodological Materialism 6. Dilthey on the Virtues and Vices of Naturalism 7. A Mask and a Martyr 8. Haeckel’s Last Stand

4 Trials and Tribulations of Clio

1. History as a Science 2. Historical Objectivity? 3. The Battle against Positivism 4. Positivist Misunderstandings of Historicism

5 The Pessimism Controversy

1. A Forgotten Controversy 2. Schopenhauer’s Pessimism 3. The Neo-Kantian Crusade 4. Dühring on the Value of Life 5. Hartmann’s Pessimism 6. Hartmann’s Self-Defense 7. The Value of Work 8. Aesthetic Redemption 9. Love

Appendix: Two Forgotten Women Philosophers Further Reading Index