Throughout the nineteenth century,
German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution.
Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its
heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a
“revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified
society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of
the revolutionary experience.
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions.
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions.
