Johann Friedrich Herbart: Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy

by Frederick C. Beiser

Though little known today, Johann Friedrich Herbart was one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. Although he was trained by Fichte, Herbart soon became a critic of the idealist tradition and developed a philosophy antithetical to it. His own philosophy was opposed to the idealist tradition in important respects: he defended a dualism between the factual and normative; he was an ontological pluralist rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192849859
• ISBN13: 9780192849854
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"