Between Kant and Hegel

by Henrich, Dieter

• ISBN13: 9780674027374
• ISBN10: 067402737X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-31
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of the most eloquent explanations and interpretations of classical German philosophy and of the way it relates to the concerns of contemporary philosophy. Thanks to the editorial work of David Pacini, the lectures appear here with annotations linking them to editions of the masterworks of German philosophy as they are now available. Henrich describes the movement that led from Kant to Hegel, beginning with an interpretation of the structure and tensions of Kant's system. He locates the Kantian movement and revival of Spinoza, as sketched by F. H. Jacobi, in the intellectual conditions of the time and in the philosophical motivations of modern thought. Providing extensive analysis of the various versions of Fichte's Science of Knowledge, Henrich brings into view a constellation of problems that illuminate the accomplishments of the founders of Romanticism, Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel, and of the poet Houml;lderlin's original philosophy. He concludes with an interpretation of the basic design of Hegel's system.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword: Remembrance through Disenchantment

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Texts

Introduction

The Systematic Structure of Kant's Philosophy

Internal Experience and Philosophical Theory

Sensation, Cognition, and the "Riddle of Metaphysics"

Freedom as the "Keystone" to the Vault of Reason

Kant's Early Critics

The Allure of "Mysticism"

Jacobi and the "Spinozism of Freedom"

Jacobi and the Philosophy of Immediacy

Reinhold and the Systematic Spirit

Reinhold and "Elementary Philosophy"

Schulze and Post-Kantian Skepticism

Fichte

The Aenesidemus Review

"Own Meditations on Elementary Philosophy," I

"Own Meditations on Philosophy," II

The Science of Knowledge (1794)

Theories of Imagination and Longing and Their Impact on Schlegel, Novalis, and Hölderlin

Foundation and System in The Science of Knowledge

The Paradoxical Character of the Self-Relatedness of Consciousness

The Turn to Speculative Theology

Hölderlin

The Place of Hölderlin's "Judgment and Being"

Hegel

The Way to the Fifth Philosophy (The Science of Logic)

The Logic of Negation and Its Application

Index

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