German idealism : the struggle against subjectivism, 1781-1801 / Frederick C. Beiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Idealism, German--History--18th century.

Idealism, German.

Subjectivity--History--18th century.

Subjectivity.

Philosophy, German--18th century.

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 726 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work revises understanding of the history and thought of German philosophy between 1781 and 1801. It exposes an objective running from Kant to Hegel and identifies the role of early romantics as the founders of absolute idealism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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 Idealism

1 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 Idealism

2 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

Notes:

Originally published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-720) and index.

ISBN:

9780674971219

0674971213

9780674020702

0674020707

OCLC:

848189497