1st Edition

Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism The Origins of Continental Philosophy

By Thomas Nenon Copyright 2010
360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

"Kant, Kantianism and Idealism" presents an overview of German Idealism, the major movement in philosophy from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th Century. The period was dominated by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, whose work influenced not just philosophy, but also art, theology and politics. The volume covers not only these major figures but also their main followers and interpreters.... Read more
Series Preface; Introduction, Thomas Nenon; 1. Immanuel Kant's turn to transcendental philosophy, Thomas Nenon; 2. Kant's early critics: Jacobi, Reinhold, Maimon, Richard Fincham; 3. Johann Gottfried Herder, Sonia Sikka; 4. Play and irony: Schiller and Shlegel on the liberating prospects of aesthetics, Daniel Dahlstrom; 5. Fichte and Husserl: life-world, the Other, and philosophical reflection, Robert R. Williams; 6. Schelling: philosopher of tragic dissonance, Joseph P. Lawrence; 7. Schopenhauer on empirical and aesthetic perception and cognition, Bart Vandenabeele; 8. G. W. F. Hegel, Terry Pinkard; 9. From Hegelian reason to Marxian revolution, 1831 - 48, Lawrence S. Stepelevich; 10. Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Proudhon: "Utopian" French socialism, Diane Morgan

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Thomas Nenon