Nineteenth-century philosophy

References and further reading

	Burrow, J.W. (2000) The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (A clear and accessible intellectual history of the period.)
	Camponigri, A.R. (1971) A History of Western Philosophy, vol. IV: Philosophy from the Romantic Age to the Age of Positivism, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (An overview of the main thinkers and movements of the nineteenth century.)
	Chadwick, O. (1975) The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A study of the intellectual, cultural and social background to the rise of secularism during this period.)
	Charlton, D.G. (1959) Positivist Thought in France During the Second Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Brings out the tension between positivist and idealist currents in French thought during the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on Comte, Littré, Renan and Taine.)
	Copleston, F. (1963) A History of Philosophy, vol. VII: Fichte to Nietzsche, London: Burns & Oates. (Covers the development of German philosophy in the nineteenth century. Somewhat dated, but still useful for an overview.)
	Copleston, F. (1966) A History of Philosophy, vol. VIII: Bentham to Russell, London: Burns & Oats. (Covers the main British and American philosophers of the nineteenth century. Somewhat dated, but still useful for an overview.)
	Copleston, F. (1975) A History of Philosophy, vol. IX: Maine de Biran to Sartre, London: Search Press. (Covers the main French philosophers of the nineteenth century. Somewhat dated, but still useful for an overview.)
	Flower, E. and Murphey, M.G. (1977) A History of Philosophy in America, New York: Capricorn Books, 2 vols. (A classic treatment of philosophical thought in America; most of the material relating to the nineteenth century can be found in vol. 2.)
	Gardiner, P.L. (ed.) ((1969) Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, New York: The Free Press and London: Collier-Macmillan. (A useful collection of primary texts, with a helpful introduction.)
	Gregory, F. (1977) Scientific Materialism in the Nineteenth Century, Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel. (A thorough study of the materialist movement in Germany.)
	Löwith, K. (1964) From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought, trans D.E. Green, London: Constable. (An influential study, focused mainly on Hegel, the Young Hegelians, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.)
	Mandelbaum, M. (1971) History, Man, and Reason: A Study of Nineteenth Century Thought, Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press. (A classic study.)
	Mill, J.S. (1840) Coleridge, in Collected Works of John Stewart Mill, ed. J.M. Robson, London: Routledge and Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1969, vol. 10, 117–163. (Together with his essay on Bentham, this shows Mill’s attempt to weave together Enlightenment and Romantic perspectives.)
	Mill, J.S. (1873) Autobiography, in Collected Works of John Stewart Mill, ed. J.M. Robson, London: Routledge and Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1969, vol 1, 1–290. (A classic text, which casts some interesting historical light on the intellectual outlook of the nineteenth century.)
	Passmore, J. (1968) A Hundred Years of Philosophy, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. (The first eight chapters cover philosophical developments during the second half of the nineteenth century.)
	Russell, B. (1961) A History of Western Philosophy, London: Unwin. (Book III, Part 2 covers nineteenth century philosophy. A lively, though partisan and idiosyncratic, discussion.)
	Schnädelbach, H. (1984) Philosophy in Germany 1831–1933, trans. E. Matthews, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A very good, although reasonably advanced, thematic account of German philosophy of the period.)
	Skorupski, J. (1993) English-Language Philosophy 1750 to 1945, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (A clear and accessible account of English language philosophy of the period.)
	Solomon, R. and Higgins, K. (1993) Routledge History of Philosophy, vol VI: The Age of German Idealism, London and New York: Routledge. (Clear and accessible articles focused on the major figures of German idealism and their successors.)
	Ten, C.L. (1994) Routledge History of Philosophy, vol. VII: The Nineteenth Century, London and New York: Routledge. (Clear and accessible articles covering the major thinkers of the nineteenth century, except for Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, which are dealt with in Solomon and Higgins (1993).)
	Walicki, A. (1979) A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (A helpful guide to Russian thought of the nineteenth century.)
	Willey, T.E. (1978) Back to Kant: The Revival of Kantianism in German Social and Historical Thought, 1860–1814, Detroit: Wayne State University Press. (An accessible study of neo-Kantianism and its intellectual and political context.)