The Berlin Antisemitism Controversy - Paperback

by Frederick C. Beiser (Author)

A superb account of a crucial period of not only German but European and Jewish history and essential reading for anyone interested in the causes and roots of antisemitism in Germany and beyond.

Author Biography

Frederick C. Beiser is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. He is one of the most renowned scholars of German philosophy and German idealism, his work garnering many prizes and awards. He has won Thyssen and Humboldt research fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow. He received a 1999-2000 NEH Faculty Fellowship (at Indiana University) and won the 2015 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize for his The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism 1796-1880. He has also received the German Order of Merit for his teaching of German philosophy. His many books include The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, The Romantic Imperative, and Hegel (also published by Routledge).