List of German-language philosophers

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

1. s/he has been identified as a philosopher in any reputable, reliable encyclopedic/scholarly publication (e.g. MacMillan, Stanford, Routledge, Oxford, Metzler.)
2. 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. "18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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[edit] A

Thomas Abbt (1738–1766) (Macmillan)

Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) (Macmillan2)

Günther Anders (1902-1992) ^[1]

Karl-Otto Apel (1922-) (Macmillan2)

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) (Macmillan2)

Richard Avenarius (1843–1896) (Macmillan2)

[edit] B

Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) (Macmillan2)

Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887) (Macmillan2)

Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723–1790) (Macmillan2)

Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) (Macmillan2)

Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798–1854) (Macmillan2)

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) (Macmillan2)

Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) (Macmillan2)

Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) (Metzler)

Bernhard Bolzano (1781–1848) (Macmillan2)

Franz Brentano (1838–1907) (Macmillan2)

Martin Buber (1878–1965) (Stanford)

Ludwig Büchner (1824–1899) (Macmillan)

[edit] C

Rudolph Carnap (1891–1970) (Macmillan2)

Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) (Macmillan2)

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) (Macmillan2)

Christian August Crusius (1715–1775) (Macmillan2)

[edit] D

Max Dessoir (1867–1947) (Macmillan)

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) (Macmillan2)

[edit] E

Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739–1809) (Macmillan2)

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) (Macmillan)

[edit] F

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872) (Macmillan2)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) (Macmillan2)

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) (Macmillan2)

Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843) (Macmillan2)

[edit] G

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) (Macmillan2)

Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976) (Metzler)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)^[2]

Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) (Macmillan2; Sassen)

[edit] H

Jürgen Habermas (1929-) (Macmillan2)

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) (Macmillan2)

Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906) (Macmillan)

Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950) (Macmillan2)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) (Macmillan2)

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) (Macmillan)

Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–1997) (Macmillan2)

Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) (Macmillan2)

Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) (Macmillan2)

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894) (Macmillan2)

Richard Hönigswald (Macmillan2)

Hans Heinz Holz (1927-) (Metzler)

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) (Macmillan2)

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) (Macmillan2) (Routledge 1998)

[edit] I

Roman Ingarden (Routledge 1998)

[edit] J

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819) (Macmillan2)

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) (Macmillan2)

Hans Jonas (1903–1993)^[3]

[edit] K

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) (Macmillan2)

Hermann Alexander, Graf von Keyserling (1880–1946) (Macmillan2)

Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) (Macmillan2)

Martin Knutzen (1713–1751) (Macmillan2)

Karl C.F. Krause (1781–1832) (Macmillan2)

Felix Krueger (1874–1948) (Macmillan2)

Oswald Kuelpke (1862–1915) (Macmillan2)

[edit] L

Ernst Laas (1837–1885) (Macmillan2)

Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) (Macmillan2)

Friedrich Albert Lange (1828–1875) (Macmillan2)

Arthur Liebert (1878–1946) (Macmillan2)

Otto Liebmann (1840–1912) (Macmillan2)

Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817–1881) (Macmillan2)

Karl Löwith (1897–1983) (Metzler)

Georg Lukács (1885–1971) (Macmillan2)

[edit] M

Ernst Mach (1838–1916) (Macmillan2)

Salomon Maimon (1754–1800) (Macmillan2)

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) (Metzler)

Karl Marx (1818–1883) (Stanford)

Georg Friedrich Meier (1718–1777) (Macmillan2)

Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954) (Macmillan2)

Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) (Macmillan) (Macmillan2)

Jacob Moleschott(1822–1893) (Macmillan2)

[edit] N

Paul Natorp (1854–1924) (Macmillan)

Leonard Nelson (1882–1927) (Macmillan) (Macmillan2)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) (Macmillan) (Macmillan2)

[edit] P

Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985) (Macmillan)

Karl Popper (1902–1994) (Macmillan)

[edit] R

Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953) (Macmillan)

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) (Macmillan)

Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1758–1823) (Macmillan)

Alois Riehl (1844–1924) (Macmillan)

Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) (Macmillan)

Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) (Metzler)

[edit] S

Max Scheler (1874–1928) (Macmillan)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) (Macmillan)

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) (Macmillan)

Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829) (Macmillan)

Moritz Schlick (1882–1936) (Macmillan)

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) (Macmillan)

Christoph von Sigwart (1830–1894) (Macmillan)

Peter Sloterdijk (1947–)^[4]

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (1780–1890) (Macmillan)

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) (Macmillan)

Max Stirner (nom de plume for Johann Kaspar Schmidt) (1806–1856) (Macmillan)

Karl Stumpf (1848–1936) (Macmillan)

[edit] T

Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807) (Macmillan)

Michael Theunissen (b. 1932) ^[5]

Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) (Macmillan; Sassen)

[edit] V

Hans Vaihinger (1852–1933) (Macmillan)

Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807–1887) (Macmillan)

[edit] W

Richard Wahle (1857–1935) (Macmillan)

Max Weber (Macmillan)

Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) (Macmillan)

Wilhelm Windelband (1848–1915) (Macmillan)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) (Macmillan)

Christian Wolff (1679–1754) (Macmillan; Sassen)

Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) (Macmillan)

[edit] Z

Eduard Zeller (1814–1908) (Macmillan)

[edit] See 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

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Goethe-Institut. Anders, Günther: Wirkung. Philosophy: Portraits. Retrieved on 2006-09-07.; also Harold Marcuse. Günther Anders: Journalist, Philosopher, Essayist, 1902-1992. Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
2. ^ Robertson, John George, Goethe and the Twentieth Century (1912), p. 108.
3. ^ Goethe-Institut. "But to me the world has never been a hostile place" – Hans Jonas. Philosophy: Portraits. Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
4. ^ Goethe-Institut. Cultural Critic, Scandaliser and TV Philosopher – Peter Sloterdijk Eludes all Labels. Philosophy: Portraits. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
5. ^ Goethe-Institute. Michael Theunissen: Wirkung; also Chris Thornhill. Intersubjectivity and openness to change: Michael Theunissen's negative theology of time. Radical Philosophy (March/April 1998). Retrieved on 2006-09-07.

Contents:	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Top of Page – See also – References – External links