G. W. F. Hegel August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831 The Hegel Society of America is a learned society, founded in 1968, whose goal is to promote the study of the philosophy of Hegel and Hegelianism, its place within the history of thought, and its relation to social, political, and cultural movements since his time. About the Hegel Society of America 2002 Hegelkongress in Jena 2002 Hegel Society ...

Welcome to the web site of the North American Fichte Society. The NAFS consists primarily of scholars in North America devoted to the study of the German philosopher J. G. Fichte.

German Idealism The Movement Characterized. The term German Idealism refers to a phase of intellectual life that had its origin in the Enlightenment as modified by German conditions. English and French representatives of the Enlightenment, giving precedence to sensation, had become empiricists and skeptics. They viewed the world as a great machine, adopted hedonism as their ethics, and ...

Walter Benjamin and Max Horkheimer: From utopia to redemption Ilan Gur-Ze ev The Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School underwent an impressive and substantial Odyssey from its origins in the early 1930s until it reached its climax in the 1960s, exhausting itself in the 1970s. This evolution can be interpreted in the light of the productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive ...