The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism

by Altman, Matthew C.

• ISBN13: 9781137334749
• ISBN10: 1137334746
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

German Idealism is one of the most fruitful and influential movements in the history of philosophy. The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism covers this era in meticulous detail, with contributions from some of the best scholars in this field, nearly all of which have been specially commissioned for this volume. Chapters set the philosophers and their work in historical context, evaluate the philosophical importance of the four most important idealists (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel), and address the many fields of philosophy to which they made the greatest impact, including epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, logic, and metaphysics. In addition, separate sections of the book are devoted to contemporary reactions to Kant, German Romanticism, and lesser-known idealists who are often neglected in the secondary literature. Because of its comprehensiveness and the quality of its scholarship, this book is an essential resource for both students and specialists.

Author Biography

Matthew C. Altman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Central Washington University, USA. He is the author of A Companion to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' (2008) and Kant and Applied Ethics (2011), and co-author, with Cynthia D. Coe, of The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (2013).

Table of Contents

Preface
Notes on Contributors
Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations
Introduction: What Is German Idealism?; Matthew C. Altman
PART I: KANT
1. Kant's Career in German Idealism; Steve Naragon
2. Kant's Legacy for German Idealism: Versions of Autonomy; Paul Guyer
3. Kant's Three Transcendentals, Explanation, and the Hypothesis of Pure Apperception; Timothy Rosenkoetter
4. Moral Goodness and Human Equality in Kant's Ethical Theory; Lara Denis
5. Kant and the Possibility of Transcendental Freedom; Benjamin Vilhauer
6. Why Should We Cultivate Taste? Answers from Kant's Early and Late Aesthetic Theory; Brian Watkins
7. Transcendental Idealism as the Backdrop for Kant's Theory of Religion; Stephen R. Palmquist
8. Kant's Political Philosophy; Allen Wood
9. Kant's Anthropology and Its Method: The Epistemic Uses of Teleology in the Natural World and Beyond; Alix Cohen
PART II: REACTIONS TO KANT
10. Jacobi on Kant, or Moral Naturalism vs. Idealism; Benjamin D. Crowe
11. Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism: The Curious Case of Maimon's 'Coalition-System'; Peter Thielke
12. Reinhold and the Transformation of Philosophy into a Science; Kien-how Goh
PART III: FICHTE
13. Fichte: His Life and Philosophical Calling; Marina F. Bykova
14. A Philosophy of Freedom: Fichte's Philosophical Achievement; Günter Zöller
15. Fichte's Methodology in the Wissenschaftslehre (1794-95); Frederick Neuhouser
16. Fichte's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense; Matthew C. Altman
17. How 'Natural' Is Fichte's Theory of Natural Right?; David James
18. Transcendental Idealism and Theistic Commitment in Fichte; Steven Hoeltzel
PART IV: GERMAN ROMANTICISM
19. The Aesthetic Philosophy of Early German Romanticism and Its Early German Idealist Roots; Elizabeth Millán
20. From the Metaphysics of the Beautiful to the Metaphysics of the True: Hölderlin's Philosophy in the Horizon of Poetry; Violetta L. Waibel, translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner
PART V: SCHELLING
21. Schelling: A Brief Biographical Sketch of the Odysseus of German Idealism; Bruce Matthews
22. Nature of Imagination: At the Heart of Schelling's Thinking; Jason M. Wirth
23. The Hypothesis of Nature's Logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie; Iain Hamilton Grant
24. Religion beyond the Limits of Criticism; Michael Vater
25. The 'Keystone' of the System: Schelling's Philosophy of Art; Devin Zane Shaw
PART VI: HEGEL
26. Hegel — Life, History, System; Andreja Novakovic
27. Hegel's Philosophical Achievement; Terry Pinkard
28. Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event; Slavoj Žižek
29. Hegel's Geist — Immodestly Metaphysical!; J. M. Fritzman and Kristin Parvizian
30. Narration, Bildung, and the Work of Mourning in Hegel's Philosophy of History; Cynthia D. Coe
31. Our All-Too-Human Hegelian Agency; Sally Sedgwick
32. Kant's Critical Legacy: Fichte's Constructionism and Hegel's Discursive Logic; George di Giovanni
33. Hegel on Art and Aesthetics; Allen Speight
34. The Scandal of Hegel's Political Philosophy; William F. Bristow
PART VII: ALTERNATIVE TRADITIONS IN GERMAN IDEALISM
35. Schopenhauer's Transcendental Idealism and the Neutral Nature of Will; Robert Wicks
36. Two Traditions of Idealism; Frederick C. Beiser
Conclusion: The Legacies of German Idealism; Matthew C. Altman
Index