List of German-language philosophers

This is a list of German-language philosophers. The following individuals have written philosophical texts in the German-language. Many are categorized as or , but some are neither German nor Austrian by ethnicity or nationality. Each one, however, satisfies at least one of the following criteria:

# s/he has been identified as a philosopher in any reputable, reliable encyclopedic/scholarly publication (e.g. MacMillan, Stanford, Routledge, Oxford, Metzler.)"
# s/he has authored multiple articles published in reputable, reliable journals of philosophy and/or written books that were reviewed in such journals.

Reference works such as the following discuss the lives and summarize the works of notable philosophers:

(Cambridge) "The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy", (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8

(Macmillan) Macmillan's "Encyclopedia of Philosophy", 1st edition (Paul Edwards, chief editor), 1973. (Macmillan2) 2nd edition (Donald M. Borchert, chief editor), 2006, ISBN 0-02-865780-2

(Metzler) "Metzler Philosophen Lexikon: von den Vorsokratikern bis zu den Neuen Philosophen", 3rd ed., Bernd Lutz (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003). ISBN 3-476-01953-5

(Oxford 1995) "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy". Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-866132-0. (Oxford 2005) 2005, ISBN 0-19-926479-1

(Routledge 1998) "Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-16917-8. (Routledge 2000) "Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-415-22364-4

(Stanford) Peer-reviewed online "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy". (Sassen) Brigitte Sassen. " [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/ 18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant] " in "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

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A

:Thomas Abbt (1738–1766) "(Macmillan)":Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)" :Günther Anders (1902–1992) [cite web | title=Anders, Günther: Wirkung | url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/lp/prj/lit/phi/and/anw/deindex.htm | author=Goethe-Institut | work=Philosophy: Portraits | accessdate=2006-09-07; also cite web | url=http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/anders.htm | title= Günther Anders: Journalist, Philosopher, Essayist, 1902-1992 | author=Harold Marcuse | accessdate=2006-09-07] :Karl-Otto Apel (born 1922) "(Macmillan2)":Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) "(Macmillan2)":Richard Avenarius (1843–1896) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)"

B

:Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) "(Macmillan2)":Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887) "(Macmillan2)":Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723–1790) "(Macmillan2)":Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) "(Oxford 1995)":Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) "(Macmillan2)":Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798–1854) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2)":Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) "(Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) "(Metzler)":Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) "(Oxford 1995)":Bernhard Bolzano (1781–1848) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Franz Brentano (1838–1907) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Martin Buber (1878–1965) "(Cambridge; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000; Stanford)":Ludwig Büchner (1824–1899) "(Macmillan; Routledge 2000)"

C

:Rudolph Carnap (1891–1970) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Christian August Crusius (1715–1775) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Heinrich Czolbe (1819–1873) "(Cambridge)"

D

:Max Dessoir (1867–1947) "(Macmillan)":Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Eugen Dühring (1833–1921) "(Routledge 2000)"

E

:Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739–1809) "(Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Albert Einstein (1879–1955) "(Macmillan)":Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) "(Oxford 1995)"

F

:Gustav Fechner (1801–1887) "(Cambridge)":Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843) "(Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)"

G

:Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976) "(Metzler)":Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) "(Oxford 1995)":Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) [Robertson, John George, "Goethe and the Twentieth Century" (1912), p. 108.] [Pickus, David, "To Discover a Mind: Walter Kaufmann's Celebration of Goethe, Critique of Kant, and Evisceration of Heidegger", "South Central Review", Vol. 16, No. 2/3, German Studies Today. (Summer - Autumn, 1999), p 70. "...I want to consider three of the most provocative arguments found in "Discovering the Mind". The first is the claim that Goethe is a more important and valuable philosopher than most philosophers."] :Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) "(Macmillan2; Sassen)"

H

:Jürgen Habermas (born 1929) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) "(Macmillan2)":Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) "(Cambridge)":Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995)":Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) "(Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995)":Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–1997) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2)":Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894) "(Macmillan2)":Moses Hess (1812–1875) "(Routledge 2000)":David Hilbert (1862–1943) "(Cambridge)":Richard Hönigswald "(Macmillan2)":Hans Heinz Holz (born 1927) "(Metzler)":Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2)":Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) "(Oxford 1995)":Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 1998; Routledge 2000)"

I

:Roman Ingarden "(Routledge 1998)"

J

:Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819) "(Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Hans Jonas (1903–1993) [cite web | title="But to me the world has never been a hostile place" – Hans Jonas | url=http://www.goethe.de/ges/phi/prt/en44467.htm | author=Goethe-Institut | work=Philosophy: Portraits | accessdate=2006-09-07]

K

:Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Hermann Alexander, Graf von Keyserling (1880–1946) "(Macmillan2)":Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) "(Macmillan2)":Heinrich von Kleist (1771–1811) "(Cambridge)":Martin Knutzen (1713–1751) "(Macmillan2)":Karl C.F. Krause (1781–1832) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2)":Felix Krueger (1874–1948) "(Macmillan2)":Oswald Kuelpke (1862–1915) "(Macmillan2)"

L

:Ernst Laas (1837–1885) "(Macmillan2)":Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Friedrich Albert Lange (1828–1875) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) "(Cambridge; Oxford 1995):Arthur Liebert (1878–1946) "(Macmillan2)":Otto Liebmann (1840–1912) "(Macmillan2)":Paul Lorenzen (1915–1995) "(Routledge 2000)":Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817–1881) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995):Karl Löwith (1897–1983) "(Metzler)":Georg Lukács (1885–1971) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)"

M

:Ernst Mach (1838–1916) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2; Routledge 2000)":Salomon Maimon (1754–1800) "(Cambridge; Macmillan2):Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) "(Cambridge; Metzler)":Giwi Margwelaschwili (born 1927):Karl Marx (1818–1883) "(Cambridge; Stanford)" :Georg Friedrich Meier (1718–1777) "(Macmillan2)":Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954) "(Macmillan2)":Alexius Meinong (1853–1920) "(Cambridge; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Jacob Moleschott(1822–1893) "(Macmillan2)"

N

:Arne Næss (born 1912) "(Oxford 1995)":Paul Natorp (1854–1924) "(Macmillan)":Leonard Nelson (1882–1927) "(Macmillan; Macmillan2)":Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Macmillan2; Oxford 1995)":Novalis (1772–1801) "(Cambridge)"

P

:Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985) "(Macmillan)":Karl Popper (1902–1994) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995)"

R

:Gustav Radbruch (1878–1949) "(Routledge 2000)":Paul Rée (1849–1901) "(Oxford 1995)":Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Routledge 2000)":Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) "(Cambridge; Macmillan)":Adolf Reinach (1883–1917) "(Routledge 2000)":Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1758–1823) "(Cambridge; Macmillan)":Alois Riehl (1844–1924) "(Macmillan)":Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) "(Macmillan)":Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) "(Cambridge; Metzler; Oxford 1995)"

S

:Max Scheler (1874–1928) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995)":Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995))":Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829) "(Cambridge; Macmillan)":Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) "(Cambridge)":Moritz Schlick (1882–1936) "(Macmillan; Oxford 1995)":Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Rudolf Schottlaender (1900-1988):Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761–1833) "(Cambridge)":Alfred Schütz (1899–1959) "(Routledge 2000)":Christoph von Sigwart (1830–1894) "(Macmillan)":Georg Simmel (1858–1918) "(Cambridge; Routledge 2000)":Peter Sloterdijk (born 1947) [cite web | title=Cultural Critic, Scandaliser and TV Philosopher – Peter Sloterdijk Eludes all Labels | url=http://www.goethe.de/ges/phi/prt/en269603.htm | author=Goethe-Institut | work=Philosophy: Portraits | accessdate=2006-09-06] :Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (1780–1890) "(Macmillan)":Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) "(Cambridge)":Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) "(Macmillan)":Max Stirner ("nom de plume" for Johann Kaspar Schmidt) (1806–1856) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995)":Leo Strauss (1899–1973) "(Routledge 2000)":Karl Stumpf (1848–1936) "(Macmillan)"

T

:Gustav Teichmüller (1832–1888) "(Cambridge)":Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Routledge 2000)":Michael Theunissen (born 1932) [Goethe-Institute. [http://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/lp/prj/lit/phi/the/wir/deindex.htm Michael Theunissen: Wirkung] ; also cite web | url=http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2188&editorial_id=10290 | title=Intersubjectivity and openness to change: Michael Theunissen's negative theology of time | author=Chris Thornhill | work=Radical Philosophy (March/April 1998) | accessdate=2006-09-07] :Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) "(Macmillan; Sassen)":Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923) "(Cambridge; Routledge 2000)"

V

:Hans Vaihinger (1852–1933) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000)":Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807–1887) "(Macmillan)"

W

:Richard Wahle (1857–1935) "(Macmillan)":Max Weber "(Macmillan)":Otto Weininger:Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) "(Macmillan)":Wilhelm Windelband (1848–1915) "(Cambridge; Macmillan)":Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995)":Christian Wolff (1679–1754) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Oxford 1995; Routledge 2000; Sassen)":Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) "(Cambridge; Macmillan; Routledge 2000)"

Z

:Eduard Zeller (1814–1908) "(Macmillan)"

ee also

* List of German-language poets
* List of German-language authors
* German philosophy
* List of philosophers
* List of philosophers born in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries
* List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
* List of philosophers born in the seventeenth century
* List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century
* List of philosophers born in the nineteenth century
* List of philosophers born in the twentieth century
* List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy

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