This book investigates the emergence and development of early analytic philosophy and explicates the topics and concepts that were of interest to German and British philosophers. Taking into consideration a range of authors including Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Fries, Lotze, Husserl, Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein, Nikolay Milkov shows that the same puzzles and problems were of interest within both traditions.
Showing that the particular problems and concepts that exercised the early analytic philosophers logically connect with, and in many cases hinge upon, the thinking of German philosophers, Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition introduces the Anglophone world to key concepts and thinkers within German philosophical tradition and provides a much-needed revisionist historiography of early analytic philosophy. In doing so, this book shows that the issues that preoccupied the early analytic philosophy were familiar to the most renowned figures in the German philosophical tradition, and addressed by them in profoundly original and enduringly significant ways.
By:
Dr Nikolay Milkov
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9781350277977
ISBN 10: 1350277975
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 26 August 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Part I: Introductory chapters Chapter 1: What is early analytic philosophy and how to write its history? Chapter 2: What is logical history of philosophy? Part II: Leibniz and Hegel Chapter 3: Leibniz’s project for characteristica universalis and the early analytic philosophy Chapter 4: Making sense of Hegel with the help of early analytic philosophy Chapter 5: Frege and the German philosophical idealism Part III: Hermann Lotze Chapter 6: Lotze and the Cambridge analytic philosophy Chapter 7: Russell’s debt to Lotze Chapter 8: Lotze’s concept of states of affairs Part IV: Edmund Husserl Chapter 9: Edmund Husserl and Bertrand Russell, 1905–1918 Chapter 10: Husserl’s theory of manifolds in relation to Russell and Wittgenstein Chapter 11: Wittgenstein’s indefinables and his phenomenology Part V: Two neglected German proto-analytic philosophers Chapter 12: G. E. Moore and Johannes Rehmke Chapter 13: Leonard Nelson, Karl Popper, and early analytic philosophy Part VI: Different conceptions of analytic philosophy Chapter 14: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, vs. Moore and Russell Chapter 15: Two concepts of early analytic philosophy Chapter 16: What is analytic philosophy? References Index
Nikolay Milkov is Professor of Philosophy at University of Paderborn, Germany.
Reviews for Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition
This work is an amazing achievement in scope, originality, depth, and in discoveries of new and important strands in the history of philosophy. It will transform our understanding of Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Carnap and of their relations to their German predecessors and contemporaries. * Barry Smith, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Julian Park Chair, University at Buffalo, USA *
