Description

Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. The collection begins with a set of comparative essays centered on Kant’s transcendental idealism, placing special stress on the essentials of Kant’s moral theory, the metaphysical outlook bound up with it, and the conception of the legitimate role of religion supported by it. The spotlight then shifts to the post-Kantian period, in a series of essays exploring a variety of angles on Fichte’s pivotal role: his uncompromising constructivism, his overarching conception of the philosophical project, and his radical accounts of the nature of reason and the constitution of meaning. In the remaining essays, the focus falls on German idealism after Fichte, with particular attention to Jacobi’s critique of idealism as “nihilism,” Schelling’s development of an idealistic philosophy of nature, and Hegel’s development of an all-encompassing idealistic “science of logic.” The collection, edited by Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel, will be of great value to scholars interested in Kant, Fichte, German idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, European philosophy, or the history of ideas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Self-Love, Sociability, and Autonomy:
Some Presuppositions of Kant’s Account of Practical Law, Jeffrey Edwards
Chapter 2. The Virtuous Republic:
Rousseau and Kant on the Relation between Civil and Moral Religion, Günter Zöller
Chapter 3. Kant, Pistorius, and Accessing Reality, Halla Kim
Chapter 4. Kant, Fichte, and Transcendental Idealism, Tom Rockmore
Chapter 5. Fichte’s Project: The Jena Wissenschaftslehre, Daniel Breazeale
Chapter 6. The Unity of Reason in Kant and Fichte, Steven Hoeltzel
Chapter 7. Idealism and Nihilism, Benjamin D. Crowe
Chapter 8. Fichte and Semantic Holism, Yukio Irie
Chapter 9. “In and Of Itself Nothing is Finite”:
Schelling’s Nature (or So-called Identity) Philosophy, Michael Vater
Chapter 10. Conceptual Schemes, Realism, and Idealism:
A Hegelian Approach to Concepts and Reality, Christian Tewes

Product details

Published 18 Dec 2014
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 282
ISBN 9780739182352
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 Table
Dimensions 238 x 163 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Halla Kim

Anthology Editor

Steven Hoeltzel

Contributor

Jeffrey Edwards

Contributor

Yukio Irie

Contributor

Tom Rockmore

Contributor

Christian Tewes

Contributor

Michael Vater

Contributor

Günter Zöller

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