The collection of texts presented here to the portuguese reader, as well as the accompanying introductions and notes, are the result of collective work carried out as part of the research project "The Reception of the French Revolution by German Philosophy at the End of the 18th Century and the Beginnings of the 19th Century," funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This philosophical reflection on the French Revolution began with the vast and complex cultural movement that we can identify by the designation of German Idealism and Romanticism, extending even beyond it. In this sense, we studied texts by thinkers who directly and indirectly accompanied that event: in the first phase, Jacobi, Humboldt, Fichte, and Schelling, in the second phase, Hegel and, later, Marx. Whether they were supporters, mere sympathizers, or even detractors, for all of them the Revolution, whether in what it radically destroyed or in what it set out to erect - endowed, for this very reason, with a symbolic charge unknown until then - is considered a seminal event from the point of view of entering the contemporary period.
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