The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (18381917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School offers full coverage of Brentanos philosophy and his influence. It contains 38 brand-new essays from an international team of experts that offer a comprehensive view of Brentanos central research areasphilosophy of mind, metaphysics, and value theoryas well as of the principal figures shaped by Brentanos school of thought. A general introduction serves as an overview of Brentano and the contents of the volume, and three separate bibliographies point students and researchers on to further avenues of inquiry. Systematic and detailed, The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School provides readers with a valuable reference to Brentanos work and to his lasting importance in the history of philosophy and in contemporary debates.