This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy shows the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, partly to challenge the idea that there are two separate, non-communicating traditions. The distinguished contributors include Robert Solomon writing on Nietzsche, Michael Inwood on Heidegger, P. M. S. Hacker on Frege and Wittgenstein, Christopher Janaway on Schopenhauer, Thomas Uebel on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, and Jay Bernstein on Adorno. The collection is rounded off by a paper by Jürgen Habermas specifically on hermeneutic and analytic philosophy.

• Includes some of the biggest names in the field, even Jürgen Habermas • Presents a rounded, comprehensive and non-partisan view of German philosophy since Kant

Contents
Preface; Notes on contributors; 1. Fichte and Schelling Roger Hausheer; 2. Hegel’s critique of foundationalism in the ‘Doctrine of Essence’ Stephen Houlgate; 3. Schopenhauer’s pessimism Christopher Janaway; 4. Karl Marx David-Hillel Ruben; 5. Nietzsche`s virtues: a personal enquiry Robert C. Solomon; 6. Bolzano, Brentano and Meinong: three Austrian realists Peter Simons; 7. Vorsprung durch Logik: the German analytic tradition Hans-Johann Glock; 8. German philosophy of mathematics from Gauss to Hilbert Donald Gillies; 9. The revolution of Moore and Russell: a very British coup? David Bell; 10. Husserl`s concept of being: from phenomenology to metaphysics Stephen Priest; 11. Frege and the later Wittgenstein P. M. S. Hacker; 12. Otto Neurath, the Vienna Circle and the Austrian tradition Thomas E. Uebel; 13. Does the nothing noth? Michael Inwood; 14. Reactionary modernism David E. Cooper; 15. Adorno on disenchantment: the scepticism of enlightened reason Jay Bernstein; 16. Habermas, science and modernity Friedel Weinert; 17. German philosophy today: between idealism, romanticism and pragmatism Andrew Bowie; 18. The career of aesthetics in German thinking Martin Seel; 19. Hermeneutic and analytic philosophy: two complementary versions of the linguistic turn? Jürgen Habermas; Index of names.