German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche Roger Scruton (Visiting Professor, Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London)
German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired an enduring vision of a communist society; Schopenhauer, renowned for his pessimistic preference for non-existence; and Nietzsche, who has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people.