The role of Stoicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought, this volume shows, has not been adequately appreciated. This book's ten contributions both provide a broad framework for understanding the reception of Stoicism in Germany and offer detailed case studies, demonstrating the importance of Stoic thought to major philosophical thinkers of the past two centuries. German Stoicisms is a major contribution in itself, and opens exciting paths for further research.

Joshua Billings, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, USA

An admirably ambitious project by an international cast of classicists, Germanists, and scholars of modern European philosophy, exploring the impact of Stoic and neoStoic ideas in the fields of ethics, anthropology, and cosmology on the German intellectual tradition of the last two centuries.

Eric S. Downing, Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English and Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

German Stoicisms is an unexpected feast. Who would have guessed that the Stoics could provide so continuous a provocation to modern German philosophy from Lipsius to Sloterdijk, proving themselves not only good to think with and against, but downright indispensable? This is genuine spadework of a very high caliber.

James I. Porter, Irving Stone Professor in Literature and Professor of Rhetoric and Classics, University of California, Berkeley, USA