Timeline of German idealism

The following is a list of the major events in the history of German idealism, along with related historical events.

Background

 * 1623 Jakob Böhme, The Way to Christ (see: Behmenism)
 * 1641 René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (see: Modern Rationalism, Cartesianism)
 * 1677 Spinoza, Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata (see: Spinozism, Philosophy of Spinoza)
 * 1686 Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics
 * 1687 Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy")
 * 1690 Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (see: British Empiricism)
 * 1710 Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (see: Subjective idealism)
 * 1732 Wolff, Elementa matheseos universae (influenced Kant)
 * 1748 Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
 * 1759 Hamann, Socratic Memorabilia (see: Counter-Enlightenment)
 * 1762 Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (see: Age of Enlightenment)

1770-1800

 * 1770 Kant, inaugural dissertation
 * 1781
 * Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (see: Transcendental idealism)
 * Death of Lessing
 * 1783 Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
 * 1784 Kant, "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?"
 * 1785
 * Jacobi, Letters on the Teachings of Spinoza
 * includes unauthorized publication of Goethe's poem "Prometheus". (see: Pantheism controversy, Sturm und Drang)
 * Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
 * 1786 Reinhold, Letters on the Kantian Philosophy
 * 1787
 * Second edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
 * Jacobi, David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism
 * Goethe, Iphigenia in Tauris (see: Weimar Classicism)
 * 1788 Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
 * 1789
 * French Revolution begins
 * Second, expanded edition of Jacobi's Letters on the Teachings of Spinoza
 * 1790
 * Kant, Critique of Judgment
 * Maimon, "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy"
 * Goethe, Metamorphosis of Plants
 * 1792
 * Fichte, Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation
 * Schulze, Aenesidemus
 * 1793 Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
 * 1794 Fichte, Aenesidemus Review and Foundations of the Science of Knowledge
 * 1795 Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
 * 1797
 * Fichte, Foundations of Natural Right
 * Kant, Metaphysics of Morals
 * "The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism" (unsigned and unpublished essay written by Hegel, Schelling, and/or Hölderlin.)
 * Schelling, Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (see: Naturphilosophie)
 * 1798 Schelling, On the World Soul
 * 1799
 * Napoleon overthrows the French Directory
 * Jacobi, Letter to Fichte (see: Atheism dispute)
 * Schleiermacher, On Religion (see: German Romanticism, Hermeneutics)
 * Schelling, First Plan of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

1800-1830

 * 1800
 * Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism
 * Fichte, The Vocation of Man
 * 1801 Hegel, The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's Systems of Philosophy
 * 1804 Death of Kant
 * 1807 Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (see: Absolute idealism)
 * 1808 Goethe, Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
 * 1809 Schelling, Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom
 * 1810 Goethe, Theory of Colours
 * 1811 Jacobi, Of Divine Things and Their Revelation (criticized Schelling)
 * 1812 Hegel, Science of Logic part one ('The Objective Logic', part 1)
 * 1813 Hegel, Science of Logic part two ('The Objective Logic', part 2)
 * 1814
 * Death of Fichte
 * Defeat of Napoleon; Bourbon Restoration
 * 1815 Schelling, On the Divinities of Samothrace (see: Winged Victory of Samothrace)
 * 1816 Hegel, Science of Logic part three ('The Subjective Logic')
 * 1817
 * Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
 * Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (discusses Kant, Fichte, Schelling in English)
 * 1818 Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
 * 1820 Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right
 * 1825 Herbart, Psychology as Science

1830s-1860s

 * 1830 Revolutions of 1830
 * 1831 Death of Hegel
 * 1832
 * Goethe, Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy
 * Death of Goethe
 * 1833 Karl Daub, The Dogmatic Theology of the Present Time (see: Right Hegelians)
 * 1834
 * Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (English novel which parodied German idealism)
 * Schelling's first public critique of Hegel is published in an introduction to a work by Victor Cousin
 * 1835
 * Strauss, The Life of Jesus (see: Young Hegelians)
 * Heine, On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany
 * Hegel's posthumously published Lectures on Aesthetics
 * 1837
 * Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality
 * Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History
 * 1839 Schopenhauer, On the Freedom of the Will
 * 1841
 * Schelling's Berlin lectures are attended by Søren Kierkegaard, Mikhail Bakunin, Jacob Burckhardt, Alexander von Humboldt, and Friedrich Engels
 * Kierkegaard, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (critiques Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel)
 * Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
 * 1842 Bruno Bauer, Hegel's Teachings on Religion and Art
 * 1843
 * Trendelenburg, The Logical Question in Hegel's System
 * Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (unpublished until after Marx's death)
 * Lotze, Logic
 * 1844
 * Second expanded edition of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation
 * Marx and Engels, The Holy Family criticized the Young Hegelians
 * 1846 Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (unpublished until 1932) criticized the Young Hegelians
 * 1848 Revolutions of 1848
 * 1851 Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
 * 1854 Death of Schelling

Later

 * 1860 Death of Schopenhauer
 * 1865
 * Stirling, The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter (see: British idealism)
 * Lange, History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Importance (neo-Kantian work)
 * 1874 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator
 * 1885 Josiah Royce, The Religious Aspect of Philosophy (see: Objective idealism)
 * 1903 G. E. Moore, "The Refutation of Idealism" (see: Analytic philosophy)
 * 1907 Benedetto Croce, What is Living and What is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel
 * 1912 Paul Tillich, Mysticism and Guilt-Consciousness in Schelling's Philosophical Development (see: Christian existentialism)
 * 1916 Giovanni Gentile, The Theory of Mind as Pure Act (Developed a version of idealism which is amenable to fascism. see: Actual idealism)
 * 1917 Franz Rosenzweig "The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism" (first publication of lost 1797 unsigned document)
 * 1929 Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
 * 1936 Heidegger, Schelling's Treatise: On the Essence of Human Freedom
 * 1945 Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (criticized Hegel's historicism as totalitarian)
 * 1947
 * Jean Hyppolite, The Genesis and Structure of the Phenomenology of Spirit
 * Alexandre Kojève,  Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on Phenomenology of Spirit
 * 1948 Lukács, The Young Hegel
 * 1955 Walter Kaufmann, Hegel: A Reinterpretation
 * 1963 Adorno, Hegel: Three Studies (see: Frankfurt School)
 * 1966 P.F. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (see: Ordinary language philosophy)
 * 1974 Derrida, Glas (see: Deconstruction, Post-structuralism)
 * 1975 Charles Taylor, Hegel
 * 1992 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man