Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (April 23, 1805 – July 14, 1879) was a German philosopher and

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Life

Born in

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, he read philosophy at

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, Halle and

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, devoting himself mainly to the doctrines of

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...

and

Schleiermacher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (; 21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Pr ...

. After holding the chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he became, in 1833, professor at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

. In his last years he was blind. He died in Königsberg.

Philosophy

Throughout his long professorial career, and in all his numerous publications he remained, in spite of occasional deviations on particular points, loyal to the

Hegelian Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...

tradition as a whole. In the great division of the Hegelian school, he, in company with

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and others, formed the "centre," midway between

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and

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on the one hand, and the "extreme left" represented by

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Feuerbach Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (; 28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872) was a German anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book ''The Essence of Christianity'', which provided a critique of Christianity that strongly influenced gener ...

and

Bruno Bauer Bruno Bauer (; 6 September 180913 April 1882) was a German philosopher and theologian. As a student of G. W. F. Hegel, Bauer was a radical Rationalism, Rationalist in philosophy, politics and Biblical criticism. Bauer investigated the sources of ...

Selected works

Philosophical

*''Kritik der Schleiermacherschen Glaubenslehre'' (1836) *''Psychologie oder Wissenschaft vom subjektiven Geist'' (1837; 3rd ed., 1863) *''Kritische Erläuterungen des Hegelschen Systems'' (1840) *''Vorlesungen über Schelling'' (1842) *''Hegels Leben'' (1844) *''System der Wissenschaft'' (1850) *''Meine Reform der Hegelschen Philosophie'' (1852) *''Ästhetik des Häßlichen" (Königsberg 1853). English: Aesthetics of Ugliness. A Critical Edition. Bloomsbury 2015. *''Wissenschaft der logischen Idee'' (1858–59), with a supplement (''Epilegomena'', 1862) *''Diderot's Leben und Werke'' (1866) *''Hegels Naturphilosophie und die Bearbeitung derselben durch Vera'' (1868) *''Hegel als deutscher Nationalphilosoph'' (1870) *''Erläuterungen zu Hegels Encyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften'' (1871). Between 1838 and 1840, Rosenkranz published an edition of the works of

Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemolo ...

in conjunction with F. W. Schubert, to which he appended a history of the Kantian doctrine.

References

External links

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Almost complete collection of Rosenkranz' works
as PDFs (most from GoogleBooks) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenkranz, Johann Karl Friedrich 1805 births 1879 deaths 19th-century German philosophers Writers from Magdeburg People from the Province of Saxony Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg faculty Heidelberg University alumni University of Königsberg faculty Denis Diderot German male writers