1st Edition

Kant’s Lasting Legacy Essays in Honor of Béatrice Longuenesse

Edited By Stefanie Grüne, Colin Marshall Copyright 2025
338 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Béatrice Longuenesse is one of the most important scholars of German philosophy in the past 50 years. This volume features original essays written by Longuenesse’s long-time interlocutors and former students that reflect on the breadth and influence of her work. In Longuenesse’s earlier work, she shed light on the importance of subtle features of Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophical systems. Her... Read more

Introduction Stefanie Grüne and Colin Marshall

Part 1: Reading Kant and Hegel
1. The Metaphysical Deduction of the Modal Categories Nicholas Stang
2. Does Kant Defend a Normative Conception of Self-Consciousness? Stefanie Grüne
3. Kant on Friendship Allen Wood
4. Aesthetic Ideas and Self-Consciousness Christopher Prodoehl
5. Hegel on Subjects as Objects (According to the Phenomenology of Spirit) Rolf-Peter Horstmann
6. Hegel on Contradictions Dina Emundts

Part 2: Kantianism Today
7. Is Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy Refuted by Later Science? The Case of Space and Geometry Anja Jauernig
8. Self-Consciousness, Normativity, and the Agential Perspective Hannah Ginsborg
9. Kant and Cogito Nick Riggle
10. Kant’s Conscience and Freud’s Super-Ego Patricia Kitcher
11. Does Kant Debunk Robust Metaphysics? Colin Marshall
12. Kant under the Bohdi Tree? Anti-Individualism in Kantian Ethics Karl Schafer
13. Kant on Jokes and Kantianism in Joking Scott Jenkins

Part 3: Biographical Reflections
14. A Philosophical Journey Béatrice Longuenesse

Biography

Stefanie Grüne is a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. Her publications include “Kant on Concepts, Intuitions, and Sensible Synthesis” (2022); “Is there a Gap in Kant’s B Deduction” (2011); and “Blinde Anschauung” (2009).

Colin Marshall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. His recent publications include “Kant’s Derivation of the Moral ‘Ought’ from a Metaphysical ‘Is’” (2022), “Kant on Modality” (2024, with Aaron Barker), and “Schopenhauer on the Futility of Suicide” (2025).