When we think of 19th century German philosophy, we perhaps think first of Nietzsche, or Hegel, and then some other men - but Germany in the 1800s was also home to a number of women philosophers.

These German Romantics helped shape today's ideas about the self, writes Andrea Wulf. ... 19th-century philosophers and poets who asked what it means to be free. Updated September 23, 2022.

The writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century lived and worked.

The battle between nationalism and a wider European identity in the 19th century has influenced philosophy to this day. ... a late 18th-century German thinker of national cultures and ethnic origins.

Yet, by 1834, this nationalist model for different communities of thought had come under attack, for instance by Joseph Willm, an Alsatian philosopher stuck between the French and German traditions.