List of German-language philosophers

The following individuals have written philosophical texts in the German-language. Many are categorized as German philosophers or Austrian philosophers, but some are neither German nor Austrian by ethnicity or nationality. Each one, however, satisfies at least one of the following criteria:

# s/he has been identified as a philosopher in any reputable, reliable encylopedic/scholarly publication (e.g. MacMillan, Stanford, Routledge, Oxford, Metzler.)# s/he has authored multiple articles published in reputable, reliable journals of philosophy and/or written books that were reviewed in such journals.

A

:Thomas Abbt (1738â€"1766)

Theodor Adorno (1903â€"1969): Hans Albert (1921â€")Google Scholar: "Traktat Ã¼ber kritische Vernunft": Karl-Otto Apel (1922â€"): Hannah Arendt (1906â€"1975)

Richard Avenarius (1843â€"1896)

B

: Franz Xaver von Baader (1765â€"1841): Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815â€"1887)

: Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723â€"1790)

Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761â€"1840)

Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798â€"1854): Walter Benjamin (1892â€"1940)

: Ernst Bloch (1885â€"1977)

: Bernhard Bolzano (1781â€"1848): Franz Brentano (1838â€"1907)

Ludwig BÃ¼chner (1824â€"1899)

C

: Rudolph Carnap (1891â€"1970): Ernst Cassirer (1874â€"1945)

Hermann Cohen (1842â€"1918): Christian August Crusius (1715â€"1775)

D

: Max Dessoir (1867â€"1947): Wilhelm Dilthey (1833â€"1911)

E

: Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739â€"1809)

Albert Einstein (1879â€"1955)

F

: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804â€"1872)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762â€"1814): Gottlob Frege (1848â€"1925): Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773â€"1843)

G

: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900â€"2002)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749â€"1832)Robertson, John George, Goethe and the Twentieth Century (1912), p. 108.: Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700â€"1766)

H

: JÃ¼rgen Habermas (1929â€"): Ernst Haeckel (1834â€"1919)

Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842â€"1906): Nicolai Hartmann (1882â€"1950): Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770â€"1831): Martin Heidegger (1889â€"1976): Carl Gustav Hempel (1905â€"1997): Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776â€"1841): Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744â€"1803): Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857â€"1894)

: Richard HÃ¶nigswald: Max Horkheimer (1895â€"1973)

Edmund Husserl (1859â€"1938)

I

: Roman Ingarden

J

: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743â€"1819): Karl Jaspers (1883â€"1969)

K

: Immanuel Kant (1724â€"1804)

: Hermann Alexander, Graf von Keyserling (1880â€"1946): Ludwig Klages (1872â€"1956): Martin Knutzen (1713â€"1751): Karl C.F. Krause (1781â€"1832): Felix Krueger (1874â€"1948)

Oswald Kuelpke (1862â€"1915)

L

: Ernst Laas (1837â€"1885): Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728â€"1777): Friedrich Albert Lange (1828â€"1875)

Arthur Liebert (1878â€"1946): Otto Liebmann (1840â€"1912): Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817â€"1881)

Georg LukÃ¡cs (1885â€"1971)

M

: Ernst Mach (1838â€"1916): Salomon Maimon (1754â€"1800)

: Georg Friedrich Meier (1718â€"1777): Friedrich Meinecke (1862â€"1954)

Moses Mendelssohn (1729â€"1786)

Jacob Moleschott(1822â€"1893)

N

: Paul Natorp (1854â€"1924) : Leonard Nelson (1882â€"1927)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844â€"1900)

P

: Helmuth Plessner (1892â€"1985) : Karl Popper (1902â€"1994)

R

: Hans Reichenbach (1891â€"1953) : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694â€"1768) : Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1758â€"1823) : Alois Riehl (1844â€"1924) : Karl Rosenkranz (1805â€"1879) : Franz Rosenzweig (1886â€"1929): Arnold Ruge (1802â€"1880)

S

: Max Scheler (1874â€"1928) : Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775â€"1854) : Friedrich Schiller (1759â€"1805) : Friedrich von Schlegel (1772â€"1829) : Hubert Schleichert : Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher (1768â€"1834): Moritz Schlick (1882â€"1936) : Arthur Schopenhauer (1788â€"1860) : Alfred SchÃ¼tz (1899â€"1959): Christoph von Sigwart (1830â€"1894) : Christoph Wilhelm von Sigwart (1789â€"1844)

Peter Sloterdijk (1947â€"): Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1899â€"1990): Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (1780â€"1890) : Oswald Spengler (1880â€"1936): Rudolf Steiner (1861â€"1925) : Max Stirner (nom de plume for Johann Kaspar Schmidt)(1806â€"1856) : Karl Stumpf (1848â€"1936) : David Friedrich StrauÃŸ (1808-1874): Leo Strauss (1899â€"1973)

T

: Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736â€"1807) : Christian Thomasius (1655â€"1728) : Ernst Tugendhat (1930â€")

V

: Hans Vaihinger (1852â€"1933) : Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807â€"1887)

W

: Richard Wahle (1857â€"1935) : Max Weber

Wilhelm Weischedel: Carl Friedrich von WeizsÃ¤cker: Hermann Weyl (1885â€"1955): Wilhelm Windelband (1848â€"1915) : Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889â€"1951) : Christian Wolff (1679â€"1754) : Wilhelm Wundt (1832â€"1920)

Z

: Eduard Zeller (1814â€"1908)

References

* â€" For more information on this philosopher and his/her contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0521637228

* â€" For more information on this philosopher and his/her contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in MacMillan's Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. (2006). ISBN 0028657802: â€" Ibid., 1st ed. (1973)

* â€" For more information on this philosopher and his/her contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in Metzler Philosophen Lexikon: von den Vorsokratikern bis zu den Neuen Philosophen, 3rd ed., Bernd Lutz (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003). ISBN 3476019535

* â€" For more information on this philosopher and his/her contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2005). ISBN 0199264791: â€" Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0198661320

* â€" For more information on this philosopher and his/her contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1998. ISBN 0415169178 : â€" Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 2000. ISBN 0415223644

* â€" This person is featured in the peer-reviewed online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

List of German-language philosophers: Encyclopedia BETA

List of German-language philosophers

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