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The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte

By Frederick C. Beiser

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1987
ISBN
0674295021, 9780674295025
LCC
B2748.R37 B45 1987
Open Library ID
OL2720839M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17200554 bytes)
Pages
407\407
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modem Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed the decline of the Aufkldrung, the completion of Kant's philosophy, and the beginnings of post-Kantian idealism. Thanks to Beiser we can newly appreciate the influence of Kant's critics on the development of his philosophy. Beiser brings the controversies, and the personalities who engaged in them, to life and tells a story that has uncanny parallels with the debates of the present.

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