The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism

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The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism features essays from leading scholars on German philosophy. It is the most comprehensive secondary source available, covering not only the full range of work by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, but also idealists such as Reinhold and Schopenhauer, critics such as Jacobi, Maimon, and the German Romantics Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Introduction (Matthew C. Altman)....Pages 1-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Kant’s Career in German Idealism (Steve Naragon)....Pages 15-33 Kant’s Legacy for German Idealism: Versions of Autonomy (Paul Guyer)....Pages 34-60 Kant’s Three Transcendentals, Explanation, and the Hypothesis of Pure Apperception (Timothy Rosenkoetter)....Pages 61-84 Moral Goodness and Human Equality in Kant’s Ethical Theory (Lara Denis)....Pages 85-104 Kant and the Possibility of Transcendental Freedom (Benjamin Vilhauer)....Pages 105-125 Why Should We Cultivate Taste? Answers from Kant’s Early and Late Aesthetic Theory (Brian Watkins)....Pages 126-143 Transcendental Idealism as the Backdrop for Kant’s Theory of Religion (Stephen R. Palmquist)....Pages 144-164 Kant’s Political Philosophy (Allen Wood)....Pages 165-185 Kant’s Anthropology and Its Method: The Epistemic Uses of Teleology in the Natural World and Beyond (Alix Cohen)....Pages 186-202 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 Jacobi on Kant, or Moral Naturalism vs. Idealism (Benjamin D. Crowe)....Pages 205-221 Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism: The Curious Case of Maimon’s “Coalition-System” (Peter Thielke)....Pages 222-242 Reinhold and the Transformation of Philosophy into Science (Kienhow Goh)....Pages 243-263 Front Matter ....Pages 265-265 Fichte: His Life and Philosophical Calling (Marina F. Bykova)....Pages 267-285 A Philosophy of Freedom: Fichte’s Philosophical Achievement (Günter Zöller)....Pages 286-299 Fichte’s Methodology in the Wissenschaftslehre (1794–95) (Frederick Neuhouser)....Pages 300-319 Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense (Matthew C. Altman)....Pages 320-343 How “Natural” Is Fichte’s Theory of Natural Right? (David James)....Pages 344-363 Transcendental Idealism and Theistic Commitment in Fichte (Steven Hoeltzel)....Pages 364-385 Front Matter ....Pages 389-389 The Aesthetic Philosophy of Early German Romanticism and Its Early German Idealist Roots (Elizabeth Millán)....Pages 389-408 From the Metaphysics of the Beautiful to the Metaphysics of the True: Hölderlin’s Philosophy in the Horizon of Poetry (Violetta L. Waibel)....Pages 409-433 Front Matter ....Pages 435-435 Schelling: A Brief Biographical Sketch of the Odysseus of German Idealism (Bruce Matthews)....Pages 437-456 Nature of Imagination: At the Heart of Schelling’s Thinking (Jason M. Wirth)....Pages 457-477 The Hypothesis of Nature’s Logic in Schelling’s Naturphilosophie (Iain Hamilton Grant)....Pages 478-498 Religion beyond the Limits of Criticism (Michael Vater)....Pages 499-517 The “Keystone” of the System: Schelling’s Philosophy of Art (Devin Zane Shaw)....Pages 518-538 Front Matter ....Pages 539-539 Hegel — Life, History, System (Andreja Novakovic)....Pages 541-555 Hegel’s Philosophical Achievement (Terry Pinkard)....Pages 556-574 Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event (Slavoj Žižek)....Pages 575-602 Hegel’s Geist — Immodestly Metaphysical! (J. M. Fritzman, Kristin Parvizian)....Pages 603-625 Narration, Bildung, and the Work of Mourning in Hegel’s Philosophy of History (Cynthia D. Coe)....Pages 626-647 Our All-Too-Human Hegelian Agency (Sally Sedgwick)....Pages 648-664 Kant’s Critical Legacy: Fichte’s Constructionism and Hegel’s Discursive Logic (George di Giovanni)....Pages 665-686 Hegel on Art and Aesthetics (Allen Speight)....Pages 687-703 The Scandal of Hegel’s Political Philosophy (William F. Bristow)....Pages 704-720 Front Matter ....Pages 721-722 Schopenhauer’s Transcendental Idealism and the Neutral Nature of Will (Robert Wicks)....Pages 723-743 Two Traditions of Idealism (Frederick C. Beiser)....Pages 744-758 Conclusion (Matthew C. Altman)....Pages 759-776 Back Matter ....Pages 777-801