The first volume in this unique set provides an account of German Idealism's impact on philosophy and scientific thought.

The impact of idealism: a historical introduction Nicholas Boyle and Liz Disley; Foreword Dieter Henrich; Introduction: idealism in natural sciences and philosophy Karl Ameriks; 1. Philosophy of natural science in idealism and neo-Kantianism Michael Friedman; 2. The impact of German Idealism and romanticism on biology in the nineteenth century Robert J. Richards; 3. The unconscious: transcendental origins, idealist metaphysics and psychoanalytic metapsychology Sebastian Gardner; 4. Nietzsche, Kant and teleology Christian Emden; 5. Transcendental idealism, phenomenology and the metaphysics of intentionality Robert Hanna; 6. Heidegger and the impact of idealism Dan Dahlstrom; 7. French Hegelianism and anti-Hegelianism in the 1960s: Hyppolite, Foucault and Deleuze Gary Gutting; 8. Scottish idealism David Fergusson; 9. 'My station and its duties': social-role accounts of obligation in Green and Bradley Robert Stern; 10. Idealism and the origin of analytic philosophy Peter Hylton; 11. Idealism and pragmatism: the inheritance of Hegel's concept of experience Dina Edmunts; 12. Reason's form Robert Pippin.