Understanding German idealism / Will Dudley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dudley, Will, 1967- author.

Series:

Understanding movements in modern thought.

Understanding movements in modern thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Idealism, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Understanding German Idealism provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged with the publication of Kant’s monumental Critique of Pure Reason and ended fifty years later with Hegel’s death. The thinkers of this period and the themes they developed revolutionized almost every area of philosophy and had an impact that continues to be felt across the humanities and social sciences today. Notoriously complex, the central texts of German Idealism have confounded the most capable and patient interpreters for more than 200 years. Understanding German Idealism aims to convey the significance of this philosophical movement while avoiding its obscurity. Readers are given a clear understanding of the problems that motivated Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel and the solutions that they proposed. Dudley outlines the main ideas of transcendental idealism and explores how the later German Idealists attempted to carry out the Kantian project more rigorously than Kant himself, striving to develop a fully self-critical and rational philosophy, in order to determine the meaning and sustain the possibility of a free and rational modern life.

Contents:

1. Introduction: modernity, rationality and freedom

2. Kant: transcendental idealism

3. Skeptical challenges and the development of transcendental idealism

4. Fichte: toward a scientific and systematic idealism

5. Schelling: idealism and the absolute

6. Hegel: systematic philosophy without foundations

7. Conclusion: rationality, freedom, modernity?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-49330-3

1-317-49331-1

1-315-71189-3

1-282-94341-3

9786612943416

1-84465-393-5

9781315711898

OCLC:

898104198