{"product_id":"the-german-greeks-german-philosophy-and-the-german-philosophers-leibniz-kant-hegel-schopenhauer-nietzsche-1","title":"The German Greeks: German Philosophy and the German Philosophers: Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: #444444; font-size: 1.728rem; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eGerman philosophy made crystal clear\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;\"\u003eA book that makes you stop and rethink how you’ve been taught philosophy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: #0f1111;\"\u003e—Jamie Michele for Readers’ Favorite\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eGerman philosophy is the backbone of modern Western philosophy, and Kant the single most important philosopher since Aristotle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eAt the same time, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche were grounded first and foremost in Latin and Greek, and steeped in the classics, which informed and inspired many of their greatest ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eAnd they were ‘Greek’ in other ways too—and can readily be contrasted to the ‘Anti-Greeks’ of British, or Anglo-American, empiricism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe German Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e, therefore, sets out to do three things:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #5e6e82; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOutline the life and thought of the five most fertile German philosophers;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eUnravel their many influences, including over one another; and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eSituate them within the Western tradition inaugurated by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—showing how they are, in fact, their heirs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eEditorial reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA fine, enjoyably readable and historically accurate book that informatively and excitingly portrays the lives of Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—Prof Robert Wicks, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eNeel Burton’s engaging style almost brings to life the major philosophers and their influential ideas. Rewarding reading for those wanting a brisk and essentialized tour of early modern philosophy.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—Prof Stephen R.C. Hicks, author of Explaining Postmodernism and Nietzsche and the Nazis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA richly entertaining tour of some eminent German philosophers. It is liberally interspersed with fascinating biographical information. I greatly enjoyed this well-written book. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003eDr Mark Robson, author of Who the Hell Is Immanuel Kant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA fascinating, thought-provoking book. Neel Burton’s approach is similar to Will Durant’s, particularly in how he blends storytelling with philosophical insight.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—Carol Thompson, teacher of writing, book editor, and investigative journalist with over 50 reporting awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eI cannot imagine any of my college professors having Neel Burton's deft touch with metaphysics. With his sly asides and keen observations, he brings the long-dead German philosophers to life for those who live now. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—CR Hurst, author of biographies and teacher of writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;\"\u003eNeel Burton makes philosophy enjoyable for ordinary readers. There is so much packed into this book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: #0f1111;\"\u003e—Romuald Dzemo for Readers’ Favorite\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eDr Neel Burton is a philosopher and psychiatrist who lives and teaches in Oxford, England. His other books include: \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eStoic Stories: Stoicism by Its Best Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIndian Mythology and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e. “As I wrote \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe German Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e, I fell under the spell of each philosopher in turn, and I hope you will too.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA biographical, historical approach\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe German Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e makes German philosophy memorable and graspable by adopting a biographical, chronological approach to Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Embedding their works and ideas within their lived context enables the reader to discover them ‘at the same time’ as they themselves did, and for the same reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 16px; cursor: text; color: #444444; padding: 0px; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e◆ Grab your copy now and follow the fascinating journey from the mathematics and metaphysics of a pre-ordained universe to the irrational depths of the human psyche and birth of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acheron Press","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":66757440471344,"sku":"9781913260644","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-german-greeks-german-philosophy-and-the-german-philosophers-leibniz-kant-hegel-schopenhauer-nietzsche-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}