Coda. The Development of a Discipline and a Literature

Abstract The final chapter of this book takes up an alternative way to conceive the development of philosophy, as a development of a body of literature, by offering a summary review of the different modes of writing that any student of nineteenth-century philosophy must engage with. Examined are campaigning literature, published university lectures, encyclopaedia entries, public lectures, poetry, novels, sermons, critical editions, translations, lives and letters volumes, autobiography, sage writing, literary reviews and periodicals, monographs, invited lecture series, articles in professional journals, and textbooks. The changes in literary form that took place are situated within the context of changing conceptions of the practice of philosophy itself.