Religion After Kant

“. . . German thought from Kant to Nietzsche has had an immense impact on philosophy . . . Its impact on religious practice and theology has probably been even greater. Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era gives us a fresh look at a philosophical movement that has also meant so much to the wide-ranging religious public.”– Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University“In recent decades the relations of religion with politics and philosophy have become more complex and tense than confident Enlightenment triumphalists of the mid-20th century could have imagined. We need better modes of thinking about religion. This volume of essays offers new perspectives on 19th century thinkers such as Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wagner, and others. These are serious philosophical and historical essays, but they also give those thinkers a new urgency. In these essays the history of philosophy is not a museum where we can see extinct species, but a resource where we can find unexpected novelty in reading older thinkers and helpful new directions for our own reflections on today’s concerns and tensions.”– David Kolb, Bates College