This is the first of a set of three volumes which provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century in the West.

1. Immanuel Kant Emil L. Fackenheim; 2. J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling J. Henwood Thomas; 3. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Peter C. Hodgson; 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher B. A. Gerrish; 5. Arthur Schopenhauer Richard Taylor; 6. Soren Kierkgaard Alistair McKinnon; 7. David Friedrich Strauss Hans Frei; 8. Ferdinand Christian Baur Robert Morgan; 9. Ludwig Feurbach and Karl Marx Van A. Harvey.