The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790–1870)

1004 Pages·2012·7.948 MB·English

by  Allen W. Wood, Songsuk Susan Hahn (eds.)

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1790–1870)
The latest volume in the Cambridge History of Philosophy series, The Cambridge
History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790–1870) brings together twenty-
nine leading experts in the i eld and covers the years 1790–1870. Their twenty-
eight chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the
material topically. After a brief editor’s introduction, the book begins with three
chapters surveying the background of nineteenth-century philosophy; followed
by two on logic and mathematics; two on nature and natural science; four on
mind, language, and culture, including psychology, the human sciences, and
aesthetics; four on ethics; three on religion; seven on society, including chapters
on the French Revolution, the decline of natural right, political economy, and
social discontent; and three on history, dealing with historical method, specu-
lative theories of history, and the history of philosophy. The volume concludes
with an extensive list of references.
Allen W. Wood is Ruth Norman Halls Professor at Indiana University and Ward
W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus at Stanford University. His recent
book publications include Karl Marx (2004) and K antian Ethics (2008). He has also
edited and translated numerous works of philosophy and published extensively
in academic journals.
Songsuk Susan Hahn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Université
Concordia in Montré al, Qué b ec, Canada. She has also held a teaching appoint-
ment at Johns Hopkins University and visiting appointments at Harvard
University and the American University of Paris. She is the author of Contradiction
in Motion: Hegel’s Organic Concept of Life and Value (2007).

The Cambridge History of
Philosophy in the Nineteenth
Century (1790–1870)
edited by
ALLEN W. W OOD
Indiana University
SONGSUK SUSAN H AHN
Universit é Concordia, Montr é al, Qué bec
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CONTENTS
Contributors page ix
Preface xi
Allen W. Wood
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Allen W. Wood
I P hilosophy in the Nineteenth Century
1 T he Kantian Aftermath: Reaction and Revolution in German
Philosophy 19
Robert B. Pippin
2 T he Social Conditions of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century 4 6
Terry Pinkard
3 T he Unity of Reason and the Diversity of Life: The Idea of a
System in Kant and in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy 61
Rolf-Peter Horstmann
II L ogic and Mathematics
4 A ttempts to Rethink Logic 9 5
Jeremy Heis
5 S ome Developments in the Philosophy of Mathematics,
1790–1870 1 33
Janet Folina
III N ature
6 Conceptions of the Natural World, 1790–1870 169
Alexander Rueger
v
vi Contents
7 Natural Sciences 2 01
Philippe Huneman
IV M ind, Language, and Culture
8 Psychology 2 41
Gary Hatfield
9 Language 263
Michael N. Forster
1 0 The Emergence of the Human Sciences from the Moral Sciences 293
Rudolf A. Makkreel
1 1 The Beautiful and the Good: Aesthetics, 1790–1870 323
Paul Guyer
V E thics
1 2 Autonomy and the Self as the Basis of Morality 3 87
Bernard Reginster
13 Ethics and the Social Good 434
John Skorupski
1 4 M oral Epistemology, 1788–1870 4 69
J. B. Schneewind and Allen W. Wood
1 5 A ntimoralism 491
Allen W. Wood
VI R eligion
16 Challenges to Religion in the Nineteenth Century 521
Van A. Harvey
1 7 Three Types of Speculative Religion 5 45
Stephen Crites
18 The Defense of Traditional Religion, 1790–1870 5 70
James C. Livingston
VII Society
1 9 Philosophical Responses to the French Revolution 6 01
Frederick C. Beiser and Pamela Edwards
Contents vii
20 The Decline of Natural Right 623
Jeremy Waldron
2 1 Conceptions of Society in Nineteenth-Century Social Thought 651
Frederick Neuhouser
2 2 Nineteenth-Century Political Economy 676
Debra Satz
23 The Nation-State 699
Erica Benner
24 Nineteenth-Century Ideals: Self-Culture and the Religion of
Humanity 731
Daniel Brudney
25 Social Dissatisfaction and Social Change 760
Christine Blaettler
VIII H istory
2 6 P hilosophizing about History in the Nineteenth Century:
Zusammenhang and the “Progressive Method” in German
Historical Scholarship 793
Laurence Dickey
2 7 P hilosophy of History: The German Tradition from Herder
to Marx 817
John Zammito
2 8 T he History of Philosophy 866
Michael N. Forster
References 905
Index 9 57

CONTRIBUTORS
Frederick C. Beiser Van A. H arvey
Syracuse University Stanford University
Erica B enner Gary Hatfield
Yale University University of Pennsylvania
Christine Blaettler Jeremy Heis
University of Kiel University of California,
Irvine
Daniel B rudney
University of Chicago Rolf-Peter H orstmann
Humboldt University, Berlin
Stephen C rites †
Wesleyan University Philippe H uneman
University of Paris
Laurence Dickey
University of Wisconsin, Madison James C. Livingston †
College of William and Mary
Pamela Edwards
Jack Miller Center
Rudolf A. Makkreel
Janet Folina Emory University
Macalester College
Frederick N euhouser
Michael N. F orster Barnard College, Columbia
University of Chicago University
Paul Guyer Terry Pinkard
University of Pennsylvania Georgetown University
Songsuk Susan Hahn Robert B. Pippin
Universit é Concordia, Montré al University of Chicago
† Sadly, Stephen Crites and James C. Livingston died before the publication of this volume.
ix
x Contributors
Bernard R eginster John S korupski
Brown University University of St. Andrews
Jeremy Waldron
Alexander Rueger
New York University
University of Alberta
Allen W. Wood
Debra S atz
Indiana University, Bloomington
Stanford University
Stanford University
J. B. Schneewind John Z ammito
Johns Hopkins University Rice University