This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Guyer and Horstmann discuss many philosophers who have played a role in the development of idealism, including Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.
In their volume Idealism in Modern Philosophy, Paul Guyer and Rolf-Peter Horstmann engage with the notion of idealism within the history of philosophy from the 17th to the early 21st century.