German Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction

German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American ´analytical´ style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the ´Continental Philosophy´ of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible. Knowledge of German philosophy is, then, an indispensable prerequisite of theoretically informed study in the humanities as a whole.