"The Impact of Idealism – the legacy of post-Kantian German thought" (Principal Investigator: Prof. Nicholas Boyle) is a major international cross-disciplinary network investigating the legacy of German Idealism. The project, funded by the
Leverhulme and
Newton Trusts, will bring together leading scholars from the UK, Germany and the US in the fields of Philosophy and Science, Historical and Social Thought, Religion, and Literature and Aesthetics. Over the course of eight workshops in the three countries, 40 key figures in these four areas will discuss how the intellectual movement influenced later thinkers. The culmination of the project will be an interdisciplinary conference, to be held in Cambridge in September 2012, bringing together selected contributions from the workshops and internationally-renowned plenary speakers on fundamental general topics in the humanities. The final contributions will appear in a four-volume work, as well as in special issues of major journals.
The international network will fill a gap that exists in current scholarship concerned with the intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, namely, a comprehensive account of German Idealism's legacy and development. Whilst there have been a number of excellent accounts of isolated examples of German Idealism's impact in various times, places and scholarly fields, there has never been a project of this nature that looks at the broader picture across the humanities. The scale of this project, bringing together top scholars from over 30 universities worldwide, will provide a unique opportunity to examine the impact of the movement in all its many facets and to produce publications that will form the standard account of the legacy of German Idealism.
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