Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory

Published by SUNY Press 2020

Critique in German Philosophy

From Kant to Critical Theory

Edited by: María del Rosario Acosta López and J. Colin McQuillan

In the series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438480282

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Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.

Author / Editor information

María del Rosario Acosta López is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She has published several books, including Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom: Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy (coedited with Jeffrey L. Powell), also published by SUNY Press. J. Colin McQuillan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's University. His previously published books include Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason.

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"The contributors assembled in this very thorough and fascinating collection ably capture not only the complexity of aims and influences at work in Kant's seminal formulation of critique, but just how contested and dynamic that formulation proved to be in the hands of his successors. It makes the case that the notion of critique—its point, object, method, and relationship to the field of philosophy—has been perhaps the perennial concern of the German philosophical tradition since Kant, and the thread that unifies most of the major figures in this tradition." — Todd Hedrick, author of Reconciliation and Reification: Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory

"In this splendidly comprehensive, challenging, and sometimes urgent collection, the great tradition of modern German philosophy is reconstructed from the perspective of critique, where critique is taken to be philosophy's self-consciousness as simultaneously bound by the demands of reason and the claims of human need.

"While Kant's philosophy incongruously but emphatically joined the critique of metaphysics with Enlightenment rationalism, beginning with Schiller, critique becomes the recurrent procedure and signature of a philosophical tradition committed to undoing the cruel rationalities that underlie and succor modern forms of domination; critique is the self-critique of reason as domination. Critique, steering a difficult course between dogmatic rationalism and skepticism, is the practice of philosophy as always self-critique for the sake of the emancipation of self and other. Critique means to expose hidden bias, challenge illusory authority, unsettle accepted meanings, destroy shibboleths, and defy power masked as reason. In critique, philosophy again and again seeks to forge the ties connecting reason to destitute humanity. This volume belongs on the bookshelf of every student of German philosophy." — J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction María del Rosario Acosta López and J. Colin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Struggle between Dogmatism and Skepticism in the Prussian Academy A Precedent for Kantian Critique Catalina GonzáLez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Pure Sensibility as a Source of Corruption Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics in the Inaugural Dissertation and Critique of Pure Reason Karin De Boer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Critique in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason Why This Critique Is Not a Critique of Pure Practical Reason Avery Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
On an Aesthetic Dimension of Critique The Time of the Beautiful in Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters María del Rosario Acosta López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Not Yet a System, Not Yet a Science Reinhold and Fichte on Kant’s Critique J. Colin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Schelling’s Philosophical Letters on Doctrine and Critique G. Anthony Bruno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Critique with a Small C Herder’s Critical Philosophical Practice and Anticritical Polemics Rachel Zuckert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Irony and the Possibility of Romantic Criticism Friedrich Schlegel as Poet-Critic Karolin Mirzakhan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Alexander von Humboldt A Critic of Nature Elizabeth Millán Brusslan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Critique, Refutation, Appropriation Strategies of Hegel’s Dialectic Angelica Nuzzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Abstraction and Critique in Marx The Case of Debt Rocío Zambrana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Nietzsche’s Project of Reevaluation What Kind of Critique? Daniel R. Rodríguez-Navas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Kantian Critique, Its Ethical Purification by Hermann Cohen, and Its Reflective Transformation by Wilhelm Dilthey Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Transcendental Phenomenology as Radical Immanent Critique Subversions and Matrices of Intelligibility Andreea Smaranda Aldea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
From the Metaphysics of Law to the Critique of Violence Peter Fenves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Is There Critique in Critical Theory? The Claim of Happiness on Theory Richard A. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Critique as Melancholy Science Amy Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Reality and Resistance Habermas and Haslanger on Objectivity, Social Critique, and the Possibility of Change Federica Gregoratto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique Christoph Menke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417

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Language: English
Publisher: SUNY Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 446
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- Other: Total Illustrations: 0
Keywords: Philosophy : German Idealism; Area Studies : German Studies; Philosophy : Philosophy; Philosophy : Ethics; Philosophy : Aesthetics

eBook

Published: November 1, 2020
ISBN: 9781438480282