meaning of life, Dostoevsky’s

Notes from Underground

was frequently on my mind, a text which is a better introduction to philosophy than most.

The argument of Chapter 2 was strongly influenced by Michael Dummett’s

Origins of Analytical Philosophy (Duckworth, London, 1993) and Frederick Beiser’s

The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (Harvard University

idealism and romanticism, see the six essays in 'The Kantian Legacy’ in the Blackwell

Companion to Continental Philosophy . See also Steven Crowell’s essay on 'Neo-Kantianism’ in the same volume. For a very useful overview of German romanticism and idealism and their relevance for contemporary philosophy, see the work of Andrew Bowie, especially

Aesthetics and Subjectivity (Manchester University

discussed in Chapter 3, can be found in

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