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Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) has long been recognized as one of the greatest poets of the German language, but his importance to philosophy has surfaced only comparatively recently. Although Schelling and Hegel acknowledged Holderlin early on as their equal, for a long time his philosophical thought remained unknown outside the small circle of his friends. Among the most prominent figures in the rediscovery of Holderlin's thought is Dieter Henrich, who, in a series of highly influential studies over the last thirty years, has shown that Holderlin played a decisive role in the development of philosophy from Kant to Hegel, and hence in the formation of German Idealism. Among other things, Henrich demonstrated that Holderlin, while still a student, launched a powerful critique of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and outlined an alternative to the dominant view of the foundation of philosophy. This alternative proved pathbreaking for his philosophical friends, forcing Hegel, for example, to abandon his own Kantianism and, eventually, to give systematic articulation to a position that went even beyond Holderlin's.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hoelderlin
• Author: Dieter Henrich
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9780804727396
• ISBN: 0804727392
• ID: 05145445
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 1997

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