Here is the list of other intellectual stars - this list is more impressive than the literature author list!
Chronicle of the Emperors |
Mechthild von Magdeburg (c. 1210-1283) |
Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) |
Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
Jakob Bohme (1575-1624) |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) |
Christian August Wolff (1679-1754) |
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68): Thoughts on the Imitation of the Greek Works of Painting and Sculpture (Gedanken uber die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst, 1755) |
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) |
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781) |
Mozart: Seraglio (1782) |
Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812): The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote, 1791) |
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) |
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859): Cosmos (1845-62) |
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854): Christendom or Europe (Die Christenheit oder Europa, 1799); System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814): Addresses to the German Nation (1807-8) |
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
David Friedrich Strauss (1808-74): Life of Jesus (1835); The Old Fait hand the New (Der alte und der neue Glaube) |
Bruno Bauer (1809-82) |
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72): The Essence of Christianity (Das Wesen des Christentums, 1841) |
Karl Marx (1818-83): German Ideology (Die deutsche Ideologie, 1845-7) |
Friedrich Engel (1820-95): German Ideology (Die deutsche Ideologie, 1845-7) |
Richard Wagner (1813-83): The Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853); Tristan and Isolde (1860); The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (1861-7); Parsifal (1882) |
Ludwig Buchner (1824-99): Energy and Matter (Kraft und Stoff, 1855) |
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897): The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien, 1860); Reflections on World History (Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtunge, 1868-1872) |
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Giste der Musik, 1872); The Antichrist (1888); Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also aprach Zarathustra, 1883-5); Human, All Too Human (Menschliches Allzumenschliches, 1878-80); Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Bose, 1886) |
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
Ernst Bertram (1884-1957) |
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
OswaldSpengler (1880-1936): Prussianism and Socialism (PreuBentum und Sozialismus, 1920); The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 1918, 1922) |
George Grosz (1893-1959) |
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): Being and Time I (Sein und Zeit I, 1927); The Self-Assertion of the German University (Die Selbstbehauptung der deutschen Universitat, 1933) |
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) |
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) |
Erich Fromm (1900-80) |
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): 'The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility ' ('Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit', 1936) |
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973): Dialectic of Enlightenment (Dialektik der Aufklarung, 1944) |
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69): Dialectic of Enlightenment (Dialektik der Aufklarung, 1944) |
Alexander Mitscherlich (1908-82): The Inability to Mourn (Die Unfahigkeit zu trauern, 1967) |
Margarete Mitscherlich (1917-): The Inability to Mourn (Die Unfahigkeit zu trauern, 1967) |
Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929): The Theory of Communicative Action (Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, 1981) |
This is an all-star list -- Eckhart, Luther, Bohme, Leibniz, Herder, Kant, Mozart, Humboldt (brothers), Schelling, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Marx / Engels, Wagner, Nietzsche, Freud / Jung, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Marcuse, Leo Strauss, Fromm, Horkheimer / Adorno, Habermas.
Wow!
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