German philosophy
Parents: continental philosophy - Germany -
Children: Frankfurt school
People: Theodor Adorno - Walter Benjamin - Sigmund Freud - Jurgen Habermas - Friedrich Hegel - Martin Heidegger - Immanuel Kant - Siegfried Kracauer - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Herbert Marcuse - Karl Marx - Nietzsche
As observers of the French intellectual scene have frequently noted, although Germany lost on the battlefield, it triumphed in the seminar rooms, bookstores, and cafés of the Latin Quarter. Nietzsche and Heidegger became the intellectual idols of post-World War II France--above all, for poststructuralists like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. During the 1960s Spenglerian indictments of "Western civilization," once cultivated by leading representatives of the German intellectual right, migrated across the Rhine where they gained a new currency. -- adapted from http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7705.html [May 2006]
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German philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in German language, has been extremely diverse, and central to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from Leibniz through Kant and Hegel to contemporary philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas. --http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/German philosophy [May 2006]