Scholarship on Immanuel Kant and the German Idealists often attends to the points of divergence. While differences are vital, this volume does the opposite, offering a close inspection of some of the key Kantian concepts that are embraced and retained by the Idealists. It does this by bringing together an original set of critical reflections on the role that the German Idealists ascribe to fundamental Kantian ideas and insights within their own systems. A central motivation for this volume is to resist reductive accounts of the complex relationship between German Idealism and Kant’s Idealism through a study of the inheritance of Kant’s legacy in German Idealism. As such, this volume contributes to new interpretations and rethinking of traditional accounts in light of these reflections on some of the significant components of German Idealism that can defensibly be called Kantian. The contributors to this volume are Dina Emundts, Eckart Förster, Gerad Gentry, Johannes Haag, Dean Moyar, Lydia Moland, Dalia Nassar, Karin Nisenbaum, Anne Pollok, and Nicholas Stang.
1. Introduction: The Legacy of Kant in German Idealism
Gerad Gentry
Part I. The Emergence of a New Logical Method
2. From Transcendental Logic to Speculative Logic (with appendix: G.W.F. Hegel: C. The Science, translated by Martin Shuster)
Eckart Förster
3. Hegel’s Logic of Purposiveness
Gerad Gentry
4. Kant and Hegel on the Drive of Reason: From Concept to Idea through Inference
Dean Moyar
5.‘With What Must Transcendental Philosophy Begin?’ Kant and Hegel on Nothingness and Indeterminacy
Nicholas Stang
Part II. Time, Intuitive Understanding, and Practical Reason
6. Kant and Hegel on Time
Dina Emundts
7. Intuiting the Original Unity? – Modality and Intellectual Intuition in Hölderlin’s Urteil und Sein
Johannes Haag
8. The Fate of Practical Reason: Kant and Schelling on Virtue, Happiness, and the Postulate of God’s Existence
Karin Nisenbaum
Part III. The Organization of Matter and Aesthetic Freedom
9. Kant, Schelling and the Organization of Matter
Dalia Nassar
10. Aesthetics and the Experience of Freedom: A Kantian Legacy in Hegel’s
Philosophy of Art
Lydia Moland
11. Aesthetic Conditions of Freedom: Friedrich Schiller as a Complicated Kantian
Anne Pollok
Biography
Gerad Gentry is an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Universität-Potsdam and DAAD Visiting Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Assistant Professor in philosophy at Lewis University, and Associate to Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago (18-22). He is the co-editor (with Konstantin Pollok) of The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (2019), and president of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism.
