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. Christoph Jamme is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. Ian Cooper is Lecturer in German at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

'This unprecedented collection by scholars from the UK, US, and Europe chronicles the rise of German Idealism and reveals its enduring influence on virtually every area of modern thought and action from philosophy to science, society and politics, the practice, criticism, and theory of the arts, and religion.' Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania

• Introduction: idealism in aesthetics and literature Ian Cooper; 1. The legacy of idealism and the rise of academic aesthetics Christoph Jamme; 2. Hegel's philosophical theory of action: the concept of action in Hegel's practical philosophy and aesthetics Klaus Vieweg; 3. Tragedy and the human image: German Idealism's legacy for theory and practice Allen Speight; 4. Romanticism as literary idealism, or: a 200-year-old way of talking about literature Stefan Matuschek; 5. Idealism in nineteenth-century German literature Ian Cooper; 6. Idealism in nineteenth-century British and American literature Richard Eldridge; 7. Elements of Schopenhauer's thought in Beckett Ulrich Pothast; 8. German Idealism and the philosophy of music Roger Scruton; 9. The music of German Idealism Andrew Bowie; 10. 'Refiner of all human relations' – Karl Friedrich Schinkel as an idealist theorist Felix Saure; 11. Influences of German Idealism on nineteenth-century architectural theory: Schelling and Leo von Klenze Petra Lohmann; 12. 'Making a world': the impact of idealism on museum formation in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts Ivan Gaskell; 13. Hegel, Danto and the 'end of art' Stephen Houlgate.