Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition

Nikolay Milkov is Professor of Philosophy at University of Paderborn, Germany.

• Preface Part I: Introductory chaptersChapter 1: What is early analytic philosophy and how to write its history?Chapter 2: What is logical history of philosophy?Part II: Leibniz and HegelChapter 3: Leibniz’s project for characteristica universalis and the early analytic philosophyChapter 4: Making sense of Hegel with the help of early analytic philosophyChapter 5: Frege and the German philosophical idealismPart III: Hermann LotzeChapter 6: Lotze and the Cambridge analytic philosophyChapter 7: Russell’s debt to LotzeChapter 8: Lotze’s concept of states of affairsPart IV: Edmund HusserlChapter 9: Edmund Husserl and Bertrand Russell, 1905–1918 Chapter 10: Husserl’s theory of manifolds in relation to Russell and WittgensteinChapter 11: Wittgenstein’s indefinables and his phenomenology Part V: Two neglected German proto-analytic philosophersChapter 12: G. E. Moore and Johannes Rehmke Chapter 13: Leonard Nelson, Karl Popper, and early analytic philosophy Part VI: Different conceptions of analytic philosophyChapter 14: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, vs. Moore and Russell Chapter 15: Two concepts of early analytic philosophyChapter 16: What is analytic philosophy?ReferencesIndex

This work is an amazing achievement in scope, originality, depth, and in discoveries of new and important strands in the history of philosophy. It will transform our understanding of Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Carnap and of their relations to their German predecessors and contemporaries.