Kant and His German Contemporaries: Volume 2, Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion: Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion

300 Pages·2018·3.5 MB·English

by  Daniel O Dahlstrom

KANT AND HIS GERMAN CONTEMPORARIES
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Volume
Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion
Kant’sphilosophicalachievementshavelongovershadowedthoseof
his German contemporaries, often to the point of concealing his
contemporaries’ influence upon him. This volume of new essays
draws on recent research into the rich complexity of eighteenth-
centuryGermanthought,examiningkeyfiguresinthedevelopment
ofaestheticsandarthistory,thephilosophyofhistoryandeducation,
politicalphilosophy,andthephilosophyofreligion.Theessaysrange
over numerous thinkers, including Baumgarten, Mendelssohn,
Meier,Winckelmann,Herder,Schiller,Hamann,andFichte,show-
ing how they variously influenced, challenged, and revised Kant’s
philosophy,attimesmovingitinnoveldirectionsunacceptabletothe
magister himself. The volume will be valuable for all who are inter-
estedinthisdistinctiveperiodofGermanphilosophy.
danielo.dahlstromisJohnR.SilberProfessorofPhilosophyat
BostonUniversity.HispreviouspublicationsincludeTheEmergence
of German Idealism (1999); Philosophical Legacies: Essays on the
Thought of Kant, Hegel, and Their Contemporaries (2008); and
Identity,Authenticity,andHumility(2017).

KANT AND HIS GERMAN
CONTEMPORARIES
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Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion
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Contents
ListofContributors pagevii
Acknowledgments ix
ListofAbbreviations x
Introduction 1
DanielO.Dahlstrom
part i aesthetic perspectives
1 Baumgarten,Meier,andKantonAestheticPerfection 13
J.ColinMcQuillan
2 Mendelssohn,Kant,andtheAimsofArt 28
PaulGuyer
3 Winckelmann’sGreekIdealandKant’sCriticalPhilosophy 50
MichaelBaur
part ii historical perspectives
4 Eighteenth-CenturyAnthropologicalandEthnologicalStudiesof
AncientGreece:Winckelmann,Herder,Caylus,andKant 71
ElisabethDécultot
5 ConjecturalTruths:KantandSchilleronEducatingHumanity 91
LydiaL.Moland
6 Herder’sTheoryofOrganicForcesandItsKantianOrigins 109
NigelDeSouza
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part iii political perspectives
7 KantandMendelssohn:Enlightenment,History,
andtheAuthorityofReason 131
KristiSweet
8 JohannJakobMoserandImmanuelKanton
PublicLawandtheGermanReligiousConstitution 150
IanHunter
9 AFamilyQuarrel:Fichte’sDeductionofRightandRecognition 170
GabrielGottlieb
part iv religious perspectives
10 RationalFaithandthePantheismControversy:
Kant’s“OrientationEssay”andtheEvolutionof
HisMoralArgument 195
BrianA.ChanceandLawrencePasternack
11 ReasonandImmortality:HerderversusKant 215
MarionHeinz
12 ReasonwithintheLimitsofReligionAlone:
Hamann’sOnto-Christology 238
DanielO.Dahlstrom
Bibliography 257
Index 276
Contributors
michaelbaurisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatFordhamUniversity
and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, Bronx, NY, USA.
He is the editor (with Stephen Houlgate) of The Blackwell Companion to
Hegel(2011)andthetranslatorofJ.G.Fichte’sFoundationsofNaturalRight
(CambridgeUniversityPress,2000).
brian a. chance is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the
UniversityofOklahoma,Norman,OK,USA.Hisworkhasappearedinthe
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy,
KantianReview,Kant-Studien,KantYearbook,andseveraleditedvolumes.
daniel o. dahlstrom is John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. His previous publications include
TheEmergence ofGermanIdealism(1999);PhilosophicalLegacies:Essayson
theThoughtofKant,Hegel,andTheirContemporaries(2008);andIdentity,
Authenticity,andHumility(2017).
elisabeth de´cultot is the Humboldt Professor at the Martin Luther
University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle and Wittenberg, Germany. She is
the author of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Enquête sur la genèse de
l’histoire de l’art (2000) and (with Hans Adler) the editor of Johann
GeorgSulzer’sGesammelteSchriften(vol.I,2014).
nigeldesouzaisAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofPhilosophyat
the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of “The Soul-Body
Relationship and the Foundations of Morality: Herder contra
Mendelssohn”(HerderYearbook,2014)and(withAnikWaldow)theeditor
ofHerder:PhilosophyandAnthropology(2017).
gabrielgottliebisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatXavierUniversity,
Cincinnati, OH, USA. He is the editor of Fichte’s “Foundation of Natural
Rights”:ACriticalGuide(CambridgeUniversityPress,2016)andtheauthorof
“Fichte’s Deduction of the External World” (International Philosophical
Quarterly,2015).
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paulguyeristheJonathanNelsonProfessorinHumanitiesandPhilosophy
atBrownUniversity,Providence,RI,USA. Heistheauthoroftenbookson
Kant, most recently Virtues of Freedom: Selected Essays on Kant (2016). He is
also the author of A History of Modern Aesthetics (3 vols., 2014). He has
translated numerous works by Kant and edited five volumes on Kant and
oneonthephilosophyofStanleyCavell.
marion heinz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Siegen,
Siegen, Germany. She is the author of Sensualistischer Idealismus.
Untersuchung zur Erkenntnistheorie und Metaphysik des jungen Herder
(1763–1778) (1994) and the editor of Herders “Metakritik”: Analysen und
Interpretationen(2013).
ianhunterisProfessorEmeritusintheInstituteforAdvancedStudiesof
theHumanitiesattheUniversityofQueensland,Brisbane,Australia.Heis
theauthorofRivalEnlightenments(CambridgeUniversityPress,2001)and
The Secularisation of the Confessional State (Cambridge University Press,
2007).
j. colin mcquillan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s
University, San Antonio, TX, USA. He is the author of Immanuel Kant:
The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason (2016) and Early Modern
Aesthetics(2015).
lydia l. moland isAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatColbyCollege,
Waterville, ME, USA. She is the author of Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of
Idealism (forthcoming) and Hegel on Political Identity: Patriotism,
Nationality,Cosmopolitanism(2011).
lawrence pasternack is Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State
University,Stillwater,OK,USA.HeistheauthorofKant’sReligionwithin
the Boundaries of Mere Reason: An Interpretation and Defense (2014), the
editor of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals:
In Focus (2002), and the series editor of Immanuel Kant’s Textbooks in
Translation(2016).
kristi sweet is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX, USA. She is the author of Kant on
Practical Life: From Duty to History (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
and “What Is Philosophical about Kant’s Anthropology” (International
JournalofPhilosophicalStudies,2017).