Thinking the unconscious nineteenth-century German thought /

Thinking the unconscious nineteenth-century German thought / [Texte imprimé] : edited by Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 1 vol. (IX-329 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

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Introduction: thinking the unconscious / The unconscious from the storm and stress to Weimar classicism: the dialectic of time and pleasure / The philosophical significance of Schelling's conception of the unconscious / The scientific unconscious: Goethe's post-Kantian epistemology / The hidden agent of the self: towards an aesthetic theory of the non-conscious in German romanticism / The real essence of human beings: Schopenhauer and the unconscious will / Carl Gustav Carus and the science of the unconscious / Eduard von Hartmann's Philosophy of the unconscious / Gustav Theodor Fechner and the unconscious / Friedrich Nietzsche's perspectives on the unconscious / Freud and nineteenth century philosophical sources on the unconscious / Epilogue: The 'optional' unconscious / Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher -- Paul Bishop -- Andrew Bowie -- Angus Nicholls -- Rüdiger Görner -- Christopher Janaway -- Matthew Bell -- Sebastian Gardner -- Michael Heidelberger -- Martin Liebscher -- Günter Gödde -- Sonu Shamdasani 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

"Since Freud's earliest psychoanalytic theorisation around the beginning of the twentieth-century, the concept of the unconscious has exerted an enormous influence upon psychoanalysis and psychology, literary, critical and social theory. Yet prior to Freud, the concept of the unconscious already possessed a complex genealogy in nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature, beginning with the aftermath of Kant's Critical Philosophy and the origins of German Idealism, and extending into the discourses of Romanticism and beyond. Despite the many key thinkers who contributed to the Germanic discourses on the unconscious, the English speaking world remains comparatively unaware of this heritage and its influence upon the origins of psychoanalysis. Bringing together a collection of experts in the fields of German Studies, Continental Philosophy, the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Psychoanalysis, this volume examines the various theorisations, representations and transformations undergone by the concept of the unconscious in nineteenth-century German thought"--Provided by publisher

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Philosophy, German

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