Frederick C. Beiser is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. He is one of the most renowned scholars of German philosophy and German idealism, his work garnering many prizes and awards. He has won Thyssen and Humboldt research fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow. He received a 1999-2000 NEH Faculty Fellowship (at Indiana University) and won the 2015 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize for his The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism 1796-1880. He has also received the German Order of Merit for his teaching of German philosophy. His many books include The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, The Romantic Imperative, and Hegel (also published by Routledge).

Preface Introduction: The Rise of Antisemitism in the 1870s 1. Founders of the Berlin Movement 2. The Controversy Begins 3. The Controversy Grows, December 1879 4. The Controversy Intensifies, January to March 1880 5. Toward the Climax, Summer to Autumn 1880 6. Climax of the Controversy, November 1880 to January 1881 7. Agitators of the Berlin Movement 8. Wilhelm Marr, Antisemitic Patriarch 9. Constantin Frantz, Philosopher and Antisemite 10. Treitschke, Herald of the Reich 11. Conclusion. Bibliography: Primary Sources Bibliography: Second Sources Index