The embodied self : Friedrich Schleiermacher's solution to Kant's problem of the empirical self

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thandeka, Author.

Series:

SUNY series in philosophy The embodied self

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Self (Philosophy)--History--19th century.

Self (Philosophy).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] State University of New York Press 1995

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates the philosophic notion of self-consciousness found in the work of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher. Its central focus is on Schleiermacher's Dialektik, a posthumously published series of lectures delivered in Berlin between 1811 and 1831. In these lectures, we find Schleiermacher's most detailed delineation of the two-tiered structure of feeling (Gef hl) that established him as the father of modern Protestant theology. We also find his solution to the gap between the noumenal and empirical self in Kant's theory of self-consciousness that post-Kantian idealists attempt but failed to resolve. Schleiermacher correctly foresaw the nihilistic end to which the philosophical tradition of speculative self-consciousness would lead.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-03338-2