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Criticism of Russell's Interpretation of Romanticism(Rousseau, Byron) and German Philosophy(Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche) in A History of Western Philosophy : A New Reading of a Liberal Arts Classic

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2025, (30), pp.255~300
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2025.01.30.8
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : December 20, 2024
  • Accepted : January 14, 2025
  • Published : January 31, 2025

choisoon-young 1

1대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, I would like to criticize the problems as well as the strengths of Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. Representatives of Romantic philosophy and literature in contrast to Russell's philosophical position(liberalism), Russell's interpretation of Rousseau and Byron, and Russell's interpretation of German philosophy(Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche), Britain's enemy during World War II. Let's take a look at the problem. Russell's criticism of Romanticism and German philosophy is so simplistic and biased that it can be considered an ideological offensive rather than an academic interpretation. I would like to compare the interpretations of Russell and Heine, a German Romantic poet and thinker who possesses both elements(romanticism and German philosophy), criticized by Russell. By contrasting Heine's interpretation of Romanticism and German philosophy in Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland(1834), Die romantische Schule(1836) with Russell's interpretation, let's shed light on what philosophers should keep in mind when thinking and writing.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.