A national philosophy? ; From the beginnings to Albetrus Magnus ; Mysticism ; Nicholas of Cusa ; Nominalism and the rise of university philosophy ; Philosophy of the reformation ; The philosophy of protestant orthodoxy ; Occultism, spiritualism, and pietism ; The natrual philosophers and the catesians ; Leibnez ; Two founders of the german enlightenment ; A generation of epigoni ; Philosophers on the Spree ; lessing ; The counter-enlightenment ; On the threshold of critical philosophy ; Kant.