The Cambridge Companion to German IdealismKarl Ameriks This updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling are all discussed in detail, along with contemporaries such as Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schopenhauer, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well known in the English-speaking world. Leading scholars trace and explore the unifying themes of German Idealism and discuss its relationship to Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. This second edition offers an updated bibliography and includes three entirely new chapters, which address aesthetic reflection and human nature, the chemical revolution after Kant, and organism and system in German Idealism. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will appeal to a wide range of interested readers in philosophy, literature, theology, German studies, and the history of ideas. |
Contents
The Enlightenment and Idealism | 21 |
Absolute Idealism and the Rejection of Kantian Dualism | 43 |
Kants Practical Philosophy | 65 |
The Kantian | 86 |
The Aesthetic Holism of Hamann Herder and Schiller | 106 |
Systematicity and Nihilism in Jacobi | 128 |
The Early Philosophy of Fichte and Schelling | 154 |
Philosophy and the Chemical Revolution after Kant | 182 |
The Realization of Freedom | 248 |
Organism and System in German Idealism | 271 |
The SelfLimitation of Idealist | 292 |
The Turn to Late | 314 |
German Idealism and the Arts | 336 |
The Legacy of Idealism in the Philosophy of Feuerbach | 358 |
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