Apperception and self-consciousness in Kant and German idealism / Dennis Schulting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulting, Dennis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Apperception.

Idealism, German.

Philosophy, German--18th century.

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

"In Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism, Dennis Schulting examines the themes of reflexivity, self-consciousness, representation and apperception in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism more widely. Central to Schulting's argument is the claim that all of human experience is irreversibly self-referential and that this is part of a self-reflexivity, or what philosophers call transcendental apperception, a Kantian insight that was first apparent in the work of Christian Wolff and came to inform all of German Idealism. In a rigorous text suitable for students of German philosophy and upper-level students on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and aesthetics courses, the author establishes the historical roots of Kant's thought and traces it through to his immediate successors Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He specifically examines the cognitive role of self-consciousness and its relation to idealism and places it in a clear and coherent history of rationalist philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Ineliminably Reflexive Human Experience

2. The `Self-Knowledge' of Reason: Kant's Copernican Hypothesis

3. A representation of my representations': Apperception and the Leibnizian-Wolffian Background

4. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant

5. Reflexivity, Intentionality, and Animal Perception

6. Disciple or Renegade? On Reinhold's Representationalism, the Principle of Consciousness, and the Thing in Itself

7. Apperception and Representational Content: Fichte, Hegel, and Pippin

8. On the Kinship of Kant's and Hegel's Metaphysical Logics

9. Hegel, Transcendental Philosophy, and the Myth of Realism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Schulting, Dennis, Apperception and self-consciousness in Kant and German idealism

ISBN:

9781350151390

1350151394

OCLC:

1137817838