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| Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik | |
|---|---|
| Title | Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Language | German |
| Abbreviation | Z. Philos. Phil. Kritik |
| Publisher | Bruno Cassirer (historical); later publishers varied |
| Country | Germany |
| History | 1837–present (periodic suspensions and relaunches) |
| Frequency | Monthly (historically); varied |
Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik is a long‑running German scholarly periodical focused on philosophy and philosophical criticism. Founded in the 19th century, it has published work by major figures across German and European intellectual life and has engaged debates involving ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy. The journal has intersected with movements and institutions in Berlin, Vienna, and other centers, and has featured contributions that connect to the work of leading philosophers and cultural figures.
The journal was established in the milieu of 19th‑century German scholarship alongside institutions such as the University of Berlin, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Heidelberg. Early editors and contributors included associates of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and contemporaries of Arthur Schopenhauer and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. During the 19th century it intersected with debates involving the Frankfurt School, the rise of Positivism, and polemics against proponents of Immanuel Kant's critics. In the early 20th century the journal published responses to figures such as Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Edmund Husserl, reflecting the growth of analytic philosophy and phenomenology. World events including the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the Nazi seizure of power affected editorial personnel and publication continuity; after World War II the journal reconstituted in altered intellectual and institutional contexts that involved scholars associated with Marburg School sociology and commentators on Martin Heidegger. Throughout the Cold War the periodical navigated intellectual exchanges between scholars in West Germany and émigré communities linked to Princeton University and Harvard University.
The journal's editorial history lists figures connected to the networks of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Wilhelm Dilthey, and later editors with ties to Hermann Cohen and the Neo-Kantian movement. Contributors have included philosophers and historians of philosophy such as Kant, cited indirectly through commentators, and modern writers resembling G. E. Moore, Rudolf Carnap, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Popper, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Ernst Cassirer. The board has periodically featured academics linked to the University of Munich, the University of Leipzig, the University of Vienna, and research institutes like the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Guest editors and special issues have brought in scholars associated with Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty. The journal has also published work by historians connected to projects involving the Weimar Republic, the European Union, and comparative studies referencing the Vienna Circle.
The periodical covers contemporary analytic and continental debates, historical scholarship, and critical reviews of major works such as treatises by Immanuel Kant, commentaries on Hegel's lectures, and reactions to monographs from John Rawls, David Hume, and Thomas Hobbes. It has remained attentive to intersections with law and politics through pieces addressing issues raised in texts by Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville; aesthetics and literature through essays on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William Shakespeare; and science and logic with engagements involving Gottlob Frege, Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin. The journal regularly includes book reviews, critical notes, and translations engaging scholars such as Wilhelm Windelband, Georg Simmel, Edmund Burke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Historically issued on a monthly timetable, the journal's frequency has varied with editorial changes and political interruptions. Typical issues contain research articles, review articles, critical notes, and bibliographic sections; special issues focus on figures like Kant, Hegel, or movements like Phenomenology and Existentialism. The physical format evolved from large folio pages in the 19th century to modern journal layouts indexed in library collections of the German National Library and catalogues of institutions such as the Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Editorial practices have included peer review and invited symposia featuring scholars from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. The journal has been available in German with selected translations into English, French, and Italian for major articles.
Scholars have regarded the journal as influential in shaping German‑language philosophical discourse, comparable in reach to periodicals associated with the Vienna Circle and journals edited by the British Society for Philosophy. Its debates have been cited in the work of thinkers at Princeton University, Yale University, and the École Normale Supérieure. The journal's role in mediating exchanges between analytic and continental traditions has been noted by historians linked to the Frankfurt School and commentators including Isaiah Berlin and Raymond Aron. At times its editorial stance provoked controversy during periods such as the Weimar Republic and the postwar reconstruction; nevertheless it has continued to influence curricular decisions at faculties like those of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Tübingen.
Noteworthy contributions include early 19th‑century exegeses on Kant and late 19th‑century criticism responding to Hegel; 20th‑century articles engaging Wittgenstein's propositions and Husserl's phenomenology; postwar essays debating Heidegger's political affiliations and the implications discussed by Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers. Special symposia have confronted positions held by G. E. Moore, Rudolf Carnap, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas. Debates recorded in its pages influenced subsequent monographs by scholars at Princeton University Press and citations in collected works by editorial projects at the Max Planck Society.
Category:German philosophy journals