Comprehensive and incisive, with three new chapters, this updated edition sees world-renowned scholars explore a rich and complex philosophical movement.

Introduction: interpreting German Idealism Karl Ameriks; 1. The Enlightenment and idealism Frederick Beiser; 2. Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism Paul Guyer; 3. Kant's practical philosophy Allen W. Wood; 4. Aesthetic reflection and human nature: the Kantian thread in Early German Romanticism Jane Kneller; 5. The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller Daniel O. Dahlstrom; 6. All or nothing: systematicity and nihilism in Jacobi, Reinhold, and Maimon Paul Franks; 7. The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling Rolf-Peter Horstmann; 8. Philosophy and the Chemical Revolution after Kant Michela Massimi; 9. Hölderlin and Novalis Charles Larmore; 10. Hegel's Phenomenology and Logic: an overview Terry Pinkard; 11. Hegel's practical philosophy: the realization of freedom Robert Pippin; 12. Organism and System in German Idealism Rachel Zuckert; 13. German realism: the self-limitation of idealist thinking in Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer Günter Zölle; 14. Politics and the New Mythology: the turn to Late Romanticism Dieter Sturma; 15. German Idealism and the arts Andrew Bowie; 16. The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard Karl Ameriks.