Debates in Nineteenth Century European Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses

417 Pages·2016·2.07 MB·English

by  Kristin Gjesdal (Editor)

Debates in Nineteenth-Century
European Philosophy
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy offers an engaging and
in-depth introduction to the philosophical questions raised by this rich and
far-reaching period in the history of philosophy. Throughout thirty chapters
(organized into fifteen parts), the volume surveys the intellectual contribu-
tions of European philosophy in the nineteenth century, but it also engages
the on-going debates about how these contributions can and should be under-
stood. As such, the volume provides both an overview of nineteenth-century
European philosophy and an introduction to contemporary scholarship in
this field.
Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Her
work covers the areas of post-Kantian philosophy (especially hermeneutics
and phenomenology), aesthetics, and enlightenment thought. She is the
author of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (2009) and the editor
(with Michael Forster) of The Oxford Handbook to German Philosophy in the
Nineteenth Century (2015).
Key Debates in the History of Philosophy
New students to the history of philosophy risk equating a summary of an
important philosopher as the final word on that thinker. Lost in the introduc-
tions and primers to the great philosophers are the complexities and range of
competing interpretations that result from close readings of the primary texts.
Unlike any other undergraduate introduction in this field, Key Debates in
the History of Philosophy are designed to lead students back to the classic
works so that they may better understand what’s at stake in these competing
viewpoints. Each volume in the series contains 10 to 15 interpretive issues,
or sections, with two chapters included in each section. The first chapter is a
re-printed well-known journal article or book chapter. The second chapter
either takes to task or builds upon the argument in the first article and is writ-
ten by a different scholar especially for the volume. The result is a new kind of
introduction, one that enables students to understand philosophy’s history as a
still-living debate, rather than a string of unearthed truths from the past.
Volumes in the series
Debates in Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary
Responses, edited by Jeffrey Hause
Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses,
edited by Stewart Duncan and Antonia LoLordo
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy: Essential Readings and
Contemporary Responses, edited by Kristin Gjesdal
Debates in Nineteenth-Century
European Philosophy
Essential Readings and
Contemporary Responses
Edited by Kristin Gjesdal
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Debates in nineteenth century philosophy : essential readings and contemporary
responses/edited by Kristin Gjesdal.—1st ed.
pages cm. — (Key debates in the history of philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Philosophy, Modern—19th century. I. Gjesdal, Kristin, editor.
B803.D38 2015
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Contents
List of Contributors x
References for Republished Texts xiii
Editor’s Introduction xv
Part I
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and the Kantian Legacy 1
Introduction 1
1 The Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in
German Idealism 3
Rolf-Peter Horstmann
2 The Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in
German Idealism: A Response to Rolf-Peter Horstmann 19
Paul Guyer
Part II
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) 33
Introduction 33
3 Fichte’s Original Insight 35
Dieter Henrich
4 Fichte’s Original Insight: Dieter Henrich’s Pioneering
Piece Half a Century Later 45
Günter Zöller
vi • Contents
Part III
Romanticism 57
Introduction 57
5 Philosophical Foundations of Early Romanticism 59
Manfred Frank
6 Response to Manfred Frank, “Philosophical Foundations of Early
Romanticism” 68
Michael N. Forster
Part IV
G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) 79
Introduction 79
7 From Desire to Recognition: Hegel’s Account of Human Sociality 81
Axel Honneth
8 On Honneth’s Interpretation of Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Self-
Consciousness” 95
Robert B. Pippin
Part V
F. W. J. Schelling (1775–1854) 107
Introduction 107
9 The Nature of Subjectivity: The Critical and Systematic
Function of Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature 109
Dieter Sturma
10 Nature as Unconditioned? The Critical and Systematic Function of
Schelling’s Early Works 121
Dalia Nassar
Part VI
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) 133
Introduction 133
11 The Real Essence of Human Beings: Schopenhauer and
the Unconscious Will 135
Christopher Janaway
Contents • vii
12 Emancipation from the Will 148
David E. Wellbery
Part VII
Auguste Comte (1798–1857) 157
Introduction 157
13 Auguste Comte and Modern Epistemology 159
Johan Heilbron
14 Why Was Comte an Epistemologist? 171
Robert C. Scharff
Part VIII
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) 183
Introduction 183
15 Mill: The Principle of Liberty 185
John Rawls
16 John Rawls on Mill’s Principle of Liberty 197
John Skorupski
Part IX
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) 209
Introduction 209
17 Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection and Its Moral Purpose 211
Robert J. Richards
18 Response to Richards 226
Gabriel Finkelstein
Part X
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) 231
Introduction 231
19 Kierkegaard’s On Authority and Revelation 233
Stanley Cavell
viii • Contents
20 A Nice Arrangement of Epigrams: Stanley Cavell on
Søren Kierkegaard 248
Stephen Mulhall
Part XI
Karl Marx (1818–1883) 259
Introduction 259
21 Marx’s Metacritique of Hegel: Synthesis Through Social Labor 261
Jürgen Habermas
22 Epistemology and Self-Reflection in the Young Marx 275
Espen Hammer
Part XII
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) 287
Introduction 287
23 Wilhelm Dilthey after 150 Years (Between Romanticism
and Positivism) 289
Hans-Georg Gadamer
24 Gadamer on Dilthey 302
Frederick C. Beiser
Part XIII
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 313
Introduction 313
25 Nietzsche’s Minimalist Moral Psychology 315
Bernard Williams
26 Naturalism, Minimalism, and the Scope of Nietzsche’s
Philosophical Psychology 326
Paul Katsafanas
Contents • ix
Part XIV
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) 339
Introduction 339
27 Bad Faith and Falsehood 341
Jean-Paul Sartre
28 Freud 349
Sebastian Gardner
Part XV
Transitioning to the Twentieth Century 361
Introduction 361
29 Analytic and Conversational Philosophy 363
Richard Rorty
30 Not Knowing What the Right Hand Is Doing: Rorty’s
“Ambidextrous” Analytic Redescription of
Nineteenth-Century Hegelian Philosophy 373
Paul Redding
Suggested Original Texts 384
Index 387