Index of subjects

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The place of language critique in the history of modern philosophy 10
6. 2. Language as factual a priori of thought: J. G. Hamann (1730-1788) 21
7. 3. Philosophy as linguistic analysis: G. Chr. Lichtenberg (1742—1799) 27
8. 4. Language critique as enlightenment and liberation: August v. Einsiedel (1754—1837) 34
9. 5. Critique of language as metacritique of reason: Johann Gottfried Herder (1744—1803) 40
10. 6. Germans and Britons: Bacon's importance for language-critical philosophy 53
11. 7. Language and thought as identical twins: F. H. Jacobi (1743—1819) 62
12. 8. The interdependence of language and thought: K. L. Reinhold (1758—1823) 67
13. 9. Analytic empiricism versus metaphysics: Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804—1876) 78
14. 10. Analytic aspects in Marx' attitude towards religion¹ 110
15. 11. The linguistic turn in Kierkegaard's attack on Hegel 125
16. 12. Language as condition and limitation of thought: Conrad Hermann (1819—1897) 138
17. 13. Thought acts and speech acts: Gustav Gerber (1820—1901) 147
18. 14. A German analyst in nineteenth-century Oxford: Friedrich Max Müller (1823—1900) 163
19. 15. Language-critical philosophy with a monistic foundation: Ludwig Noiré (1829—1889) 180
20. 16. Indebted to Kant and Schopenhauer: Georg Runze (1852—1922) 199
21. 17. All philosophy is critique of language — in the sense of Fritz Mauthner (1849—1923) 215
22. 18. Review and conclusion 239
23. Index of names 259
24. Index of subjects 263
25. Backmatter 269