A national history of philosophy?. Part 1 German philosophy before the Reformation: from the beginnings to Albertus Magnus; mysticism; Nicholas of Cusa; nominalism and the rise of university-philosophy. Part 2 From Luther to Leibniz: philosophy of the Reformation; the philosophy of Protestant orthodoxy; occultism, spiritualism, and pictism; the natural philosophers and the Cartesians; Leibniz. Part 3 The 18th century: two founders of the German Enlightenment - Thomasius and Wolff; a generation of epigoni; philosophers on the spree; Lessing; the counter-Enlightenment; on the threshold of the critical philosophy; Kant.