German philosophy

set of widely accepted beliefs

Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music

statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

'''''' ( ; ) is a term in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Adopted from the ordinary German word meaning 'existence', Heidegger used it to refer to the mode of being that he believed is particular to human beings, who are aware of and must confront such issues as personhood, mortality, and the dilemma or paradox of living in relationship with other humans while being ultimately alone with oneself.

'''''Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science (), commonly known as Anti-Dühring''', is a book by Friedrich Engels, published in 1878 and first serialised in the newspaper Vorwärts'' in 1877–1878. The work is a polemical response to the philosophical views of Eugen Dühring, a German philosopher and socialist whose ideas were gaining influence within the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In countering Dühring, Engels provided a comprehensive and accessible exposition of Marxism as a science. The book is divided into three parts—Philosophy, Political Economy, and Socialism—and became a

philosophy originating from German thinkers or in the German language

thumb|Clockwise from top left: Henri Bergson|Bergson, Dilthey, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. ' (; meaning "philosophy of life'") was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy.

thumb|Edmund Husserl introduced the concept of lifeworld

intellectual movement in the culture of German-speaking countries in the late-18th and early 19th centuries

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Verstehen (, ), in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century – in English as in German – with the particular sense of the "interpretive or participatory" examination of social phenomena. The term is closely associated with the work of the German sociologist Max Weber, whose antipositivism established an alternative to prior sociological positivism and economic determinism, rooted in the analysis of social action. In anthropology, Verstehen has come to mean a systematic interpretive process in which an outside observer of a cultur

1886 book by Friedrich Engels

philosopher's relations to the politics of his time

significant German cultural history event

A Gretchen question or Gretchenfrage (from , with Gretchen, diminutive for Margarete, and Frage, question in English) is a crucial, difficult, "unpleasant, sometimes embarrassing, and at the same time essential question for a certain decision, which is asked in a difficult situation." It is studied in literature and the philosophy of religion. In philosophy and linguistics, it is a type of question, alongside rhetorical, loaded, leading and misleading questions, and other question types.

terminology

Geist () is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: ghost (as in the supernatural entity), spirit (as in the Holy Spirit), and mind or intellect. Some English translators resort to using "spirit/mind" or "spirit (mind)" to help convey the meaning of the term.

comparison of the ideas of 19th-century German philosophers

German group of Intellectuals