Category: German Idealism
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Freedom and Tradition in Hegel: Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion
This book stands at the intersection of three vital currents in contemporary ethics: debates over philosophical anthropology and its significance for ethics, reevaluations of tradition and modernity, and a resurgence of interest in Hegel. Thomas A. Lewis engages these three streams of thought in light of Hegel’s recently published Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Geistes.…
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Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
This book analyzes Hegel’s philosophy of religion and develops its significance for ongoing debates about the relation between religion and politics as well as the history of the conceptualization of religion. One of the most vital currents in contemporary Hegel scholarship argues that Hegel radicalizes, rather than reneges upon, Kant’s critique of metaphysics. Critics have…
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The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity
During the first decade of the 19th century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in 3 distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. K. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature. Now, Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account…
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Knowledge and Freedom: Essays in German Idealism
In this important new work on the philosophy of German Idealism, Valkanov investigates the Kantian notion of the limits of human cognition and its implication for our understanding and practice of freedom. He then turns to the question of the connection between knowledge and freedom in the philosophy of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel. Valkanov moves…
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The Political Theology of Schelling
Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines Schelling’s theologico-political works and sets his thought against his more dominant contemporary, Hegel. Das argues that Schelling inaugurates a new thinking outside of Occidental metaphysics, by a paradoxical manner of exit, which prepares for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida. This new reflection, outside of the…
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The Paradox of Existence: Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling
This book is not a merely historical reconstruction of Schelling’s thought; its main goal is to provide a contribution for a better comprehension of the importance of the philosophical quest of the young German philosopher from within, which represents a turning point for the whole thought of modernity. The book does not describe the various…
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Uncanny Belonging: Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis
This book provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime, mythology, the uncanny, and freedom, this book provokes the reader to retrieve and revive the shared roots of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Teresa Fenichel examines the philosophical basis for the concepts of the unconscious and for…
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The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche
The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful…
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Schelling and the End of Idealism
Schelling is finally beginning to emerge from the long shadow cast by the eminence and influence of Hegel. This book demonstrates that, far from merely forming a step on the royal road to Hegel, it was Schelling who set the agenda for German Idealism and defined the terms of its characteristic problems. Ultimately, it was…
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The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive
This is the first major effort to systematically organise and evaluate Schelling’s arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to demonstrate their importance for contemporary debates in speculative realism, new realism and post-secularism. Schelling’s decisionism has long been recognised as the historical root of European existentialism, but has never been properly explained as a philosophical…
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Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant
This book offers an important reappraisal of Schelling’s philosophy and his relationship to German Idealism. Focusing on Schelling’s self-critique in early identity philosophy the author rejects those criticisms of Schelling made by both Hegel and Heidegger. This work significantly redraws the boundaries of metaphysical thinking, arguing for a dialogue between rational philosophy, mythology and cosmology.…
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Revolution, Idealism and Human Freedom: Schelling, Hölderlin and Hegel and the Crisis of Early German Idealism
In this study the author presents the intellectual development of Schelling, Holderlin and Hegel during their formative years. Because of their similar social origins, the early thought of these young Swabians, during the 1790’s, should be treated as a unit. Their experience as roommates at the Stift in Tübingen and their close intellectual fellowship throughout…
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The New Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854) was a colleague of Hegel, Holderlin, Fichte, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schiller. Always a champion of Romanticism, Schelling advocated a philosophy which emphasized intuition over reason, which maintained aesthetics and the creative imagination to be of the highest value. At the same time, Schelling’s concerns for the self and the…
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Idealism and the Endgame of Theory: Three Essays
Three seminal philosophical texts by F. W. J. Schelling, arguably the most complex representations of German Idealism, are clearly presented here for the first time in English. Included are Schelling’s “Treatise Explicatory of the Idealism in the Science of Knowledge” (1797), “System of Philosophy in General” (1804), and “Stuttgart Seminars” (1810). Of these texts, the…
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The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800-1802)
The disputes of philosophers provide a place to view their positions and arguments in a tightly focused way, and also in a manner that is infused with human temperaments and passions. Fichte and Schelling had been perceived as “partners” in the cause of Criticism or transcendental idealism since 1794, but upon Fichte’s departure from Jena…
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‘System of Transcendental Idealism’ by F. W. J. Schelling
System of Transcendental Idealism is probably Schelling’s most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in 1800 came seven years after Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and seven years before Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism
Self-Consciousness and Objectivity undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. Sebastian Rödl revives the thought―as ancient as philosophy but largely forgotten today―that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-knowledge: knowledge…
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German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide
Beginning with the publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and extending through to Hegel’s death, the period known as German Idealism signaled the end of an epoch of rationalism, empiricism, and enlightenment—and the beginning of a new “critical” period of philosophy. The most comprehensive anthology of this vital tradition to date, German Idealism brings together an expansive selection…
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Essays in Hegelian Dialectic
This book explores how Hegel constantly worked to overcome the rationalist intellectualism in a healthy regard for experience, to combat romantic intuitionism by focusing on a rational standard to objectivity, to avoid an empirical interpretation of experience through including spirituality of man. This book is a supporting follow-up to Lauer’s previous two major Hegelian publications.…
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A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
The first edition of this title was much acclaimed as the leading interpretation and exposition of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This revision, based on continuing research, keeps this book in the forefront of Hegelian scholarship. The author has made additions and corrections to his reading of this, Hegel’s most important work, and he provides an…
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Hegel and Modern Philosophy
Originally published in 1987, this volume reflects the diversity in Hegelianism and every branch of philosophy which he contributed to. It includes essays on his contribution to contemporary social philosophy, logic and the philosophy of religion. His work is examined in relation to Marx, Wittgenstein and his social philosophy discussed from a feminist standpoint. Table…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader’s Guide
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is probably his most famous work. First published in 1807, it has exercised considerable influence on subsequent thinkers from Feuerbach and Marx to Heidegger, Kojève, Adorno and Derrida. The book contains many memorable analyses of, for example, the master-slave dialectic, the unhappy consciousness, Sophocles’ Antigone and the French Revolution and is…
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Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations
Robert Pippin disputes many traditional characterizations of the distinctiveness of modern philosophy. In their place he defends claims about agency, freedom, ethical life and modernity itself, all of which are central to the German idealist philosophical tradition, and in particular, to the writings of Hegel. Having considered the Hegelian version of these issues the author…
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Rethinking German Idealism
The ‘death’ of German Idealism has been decried innumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-century critique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, or analytic philosophy. Yet in the face of two hundred years of sustained, extremely rigorous attempts to leave behind its legacy, German Idealism has resisted its philosophical…
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German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge
The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention in recent years. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In examining the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to a broad array of concepts (epistemology, metaphysics, logic, dialectic,…
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Schelling versus Hegel: From German Idealism to Christian Metaphysics
In tracing Friedrich von Schelling’s long philosophical development, John Laughland examines in particular his disentanglement from German idealism and his reaction, later in life, against Hegel. He argues that this story has relevance beyond the facts themselves and that it explains much about the direction philosophy took in the century between the French Revolution and…
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Spinoza and German Idealism
There can be little doubt that without Spinoza, German Idealism would have been just as impossible as it would have been without Kant. Yet the precise nature of Spinoza’s influence on the German Idealists has hardly been studied in detail. This volume of essays by leading scholars sheds light on how the appropriation of Spinoza…
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Receptive Spirit: German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission
Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel envisioned and enacted the conjunction of receptivity and…
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Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism
In this book Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only…
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Kant and Idealism
Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion―idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, he surveys and classifies some of its major forms, giving particular attention to Kant. He argues that Kant provides the all-important link between three main types of…
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The Innovations of Idealism
Originally published in German in 1995, this collection of essays has been written by the foremost representative of the hermeneutical approach in German philosophy. Offering a novel interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought—Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel—Rüdiger Bubner insightfully reviews the philosophical innovations in the complex of issues and aspirations which dominated German…
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The Very Idea of Organization: Social Ontology Today: Kantian and Hegelian Reconsiderations
This book presents a philosophical account of the phenomenon of organization. It takes as its starting point a debate in organization studies about the foundations of organizational research. This debate, however, is running into difficulties regarding the basic concept of the reality that organization studies deal with, that is regarding the ontology of organization. A…
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Hegelian Reflections on the Idea of Nuclear War: Dialectical Thinking and the Dialectic of Mankind
Applying Hegelian dialectical method, Krombach attempts to demonstate how Hegelian thinking provides a method to traverse the gulf between the history of philosophy and the idea of nuclear war, as well as showing its direct implications for conceptualizing environmental issues. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism
Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers―Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel―with nature’s destructive powers―contagion, disease, and death. Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Thaumaturgic Idealism: Novalis’s Scientific-Philosophical Notebooks of 1798-18001. The…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: An Introduction
This book introduces Hegel’s best-known and most influential work, Phenomenology of Spirit, by interpreting it as a unified argument for a single philosophical claim: that human beings achieve their freedom through retrospective self-understanding. In clear, non-technical prose, Larry Krasnoff sets this claim in the context of the history of modern philosophy and shows how it…
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Hegel and Scepticism: On Klaus Vieweg’s Interpretation
“Hegel and scepticism” remains an intriguing topic directly concerning the logical and methodological core of Hegel’s system. A series of contributions is unfolding around a keynote paper by Klaus Vieweg, which tries to understand and restate the limits and the content of the relationship between Hegel’s philosophy and scepticism. Various Hegel readers with different concerns…
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Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays
Table of Contents I. The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel by J. N. FindlayII. The Hegel Myth and Its Method by Walter KaufmannIII. The Young Hegel and Religion by Walter KaufmannIV. Hegel: A Non-Metaphysical View by Klaus HartmannV. Hegel’s Concept of “Geist” by Robert C. SolomonVI. The Opening Arguments of the Phenomenology by Charles TaylorVII. Notes…
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Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard
Michelle Kosch’s book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency—how is moral responsibility consistent with the possibility of theoretical explanation? is moral agency essentially rational agency? can autonomy be the foundation of ethics?—from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard. There are two complementary projects here. The first is to clarify the contours of German idealism…
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The Aesthetic Theories of Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
This essay is concerned with the aesthetic theories of Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer, but approximately half the book is devoted to Kant. The author has long felt that Kant’s Critique of Judgement and Tolstoy’s What is Art? Are the most vital works in modern aesthetic. The significance of Kant’s treatise lies in the fact that…
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Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon
Hegel is most often mentioned – and not without good reason – as one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the ‘decolonial turn’, Frantz Fanon. This would be inexplicable if…
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Idealism, Politics and History: Sources of Hegelian Thought
In this book Kelly provides a wide-ranging but careful scholarly analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period: intellectual and moral perceptions of history, and the patterns of political systems. He argues that a close exploration of the former is critical to our understanding of political philosophy at the end…
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Law’s Trace: From Hegel to Derrida
Law’s Trace argues for the political importance of deconstruction by taking Derrida’s reading of Hegel as its point of departure. While it is well established that seemingly neutral and inclusive legal and political categories and representations are always, in fact, partial and exclusive, among Derrida’s most potent arguments was that the exclusions at work in…
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Hegel’s Aesthetics: A Critical Exposition
The Aesthetics of Hegel is a voluminous treatise, and more easy of comprehension than any other of his works. Its appearance began a new era in art criticism, and it has been the mine from which many subsequent writers have drawn their treasures. To read it intelligently will open new vistas and make possible new…
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Paradox, Dialectic, and System: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic
This book undertakes a critical analysis of some central problems in Hegel scholarship. It is concerned with clarifying the theoretical underpinnings of paradox, the possible relationship of paradox to a dialectic logic, and the possibilities of systematization of dialectic and/or paradox. The author begins with a discussion of current attitudes toward paradox in mathematics, science,…
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Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
Unique in both scope and critical perspective, Reason in Religion traces the evolution of a distinctive branch of Hegel’s philosophy. Walter Jaeschke takes account of a sweeping oeuvre, from the early theological writings to the Berlin Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, the latter reconstructed for the first time as Hegel actually presented them, permitting…
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Alienation
The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent work in the analytical tradition to reconceive alienation as the absence of a…
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An Analysis of G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning and philosophical argument, an approach that has been credited with influencing Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other key modern philosophers. That…
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The Hegel Dictionary
This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of G.W.F. Hegel, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Hegel’s thought. Hegel is one of the greatest, but also one…
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Hegel 250—Too Late? | Problemi International, No. 4, 2020
Modernity begins with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He is the defining philosopher of the transition to the modern world. Today, with the globalization of hyper digital capitalism, we are entering a new massive transition, so on the occasion of Hegel’s 250th birthday in 2020 serious attempts were made to rethink Hegel’s relevance and to reimagine…
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The Dimensions of Hegel’s Dialectic
This book examines the epistemological import of Hegelian dialectic in the widest sense. In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. Indeed, it is dialectic that makes up the very core of Hegel’s position, yet it is an…
Simon Gros 