German Idealism : the Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801.

German Idealism : the Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801.

One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism as a doctrine, Frederick Beiser exposes a stro...

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Main Author: Beiser, Frederick C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, March 2008.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Idealism, German > History > 18th century.
Subjectivity > History > 18th century.
Philosophy, German > 18th century.
Idealism, German
Philosophy, German
Subjectivity
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Contents; Introduction; I. Kant's Critique of Idealism; Introduction: Kant and the Problem of Subjectivism; 1. Idealism in the Precritical Years; 2. Transcendental Idealism and Empirical Realism; 3. The First Edition Refutation of Skeptical Idealism; 4. The First Edition Refutation of Dogmatic Idealism; 5. Kant and Berkeley; 6. The Second Edition Refutation of Problematic Idealism; 7. Kant and the Way of Ideas; 8. The Transcendental Subject; 9. The Status of the Transcendental; 10. Kant's Idealism in the Opus postumum; II. Fichte's Critique of Subjectivism.
  • Introduction: The Interpretation of Fichte's Idealism1. Fichte and the Subjectivist Tradition; 2. The Battle against Skepticism; 3. Criticism versus Dogmatism; 4. Freedom and Subjectivity; 5. Knowledge of Freedom; 6. Critical Idealism; 7. The Refutation of Idealism; 8. The Structure of Intersubjectivity; III. Absolute Idealism; 1. Absolute Idealism: General Introduction; 2. Hölderlin and Absolute Idealism; 3. Novalis' Magical Idealism; 4. Friedrich Schlegel's Absolute Idealism; IV. Schelling and Absolute Idealism; Introduction: The Troublesome Schellingian Legacy.
  • 1. The Path toward Absolute Idealism2. The Development of Naturphilosophie; 3. Schelling's Break with Fichte; 4. Problems, Methods, and Concepts of Naturphilosophie; 5. Theory of Life and Matter; 6. Schelling's Absolute Idealism; 7. The Dark Night of the Absolute; 8. Absolute Knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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