Idealist Society Of North America

The Idealist Society of North America (ISNA) is an international group of academics, scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts dedicated to cultivating a space for the study of idealist philosophy broadly construed. ISNA’s mission is to intertwine the wider tradition of idealism from Plato to the present with this tradition’s instantiation in the fields of 18th and 19th century German Idealism and 19th and 20th century British and American Idealism. We view these movements as particularly important moments in the idealist tradition but seek to establish the broader continuity of these movements with the idealist tradition as a whole. We are committed to no single definition of idealism, and instead embrace the vicissitudes of the idealist tradition in full.