The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism

312 Pages·2000·2.05 MB·English

by  Karl Ameriks

The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism offers a comprehensive, pene-
trating,andinformativeguidetowhatisregardedastheclassicalperiodofGerman
philosophy.Kant,Fichte,Hegel,andSchellingarealldiscussedindetail,together
with a number of their contemporaries, such as Hölderlin and Schleiermacher,
whoseinfluencewasconsiderablebutwhoseworkislesswellknownintheEnglish-
speakingworld.Theessaysinthevolumetraceandexploretheunifyingthemesof
GermanIdealism,anddiscussitsrelationshiptoromanticism,theEnlightenment,
andthecultureof seventeenth-andeighteenth-centuryEurope.Theresultisan
illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will
appealtoawiderangeofreadersinphilosophy,Germanstudies,theology,litera-
ture,andthehistoryofideas.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
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GERMAN IDEALISM
EDITED BY
KARL AMERIKS
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CONTENTS
Listof contributors pageix
Chronology xii
Mapof Jena xv
Introduction:interpretingGermanIdealism 1
karl ameriks
1 TheEnlightenmentandidealism 18
frederick beiser
2 Absoluteidealismandtherejectionof Kantiandualism 37
paul guyer
3 Kant’spracticalphilosophy 57
allen w. wood
4 Theaestheticholismof Hamann,Herder,andSchiller 76
daniel o. dahlstrom
5 Allornothing:systematicityandnihilisminJacobi,Reinhold,
andMaimon 95
paul franks
6 Theearlyphilosophyof FichteandSchelling 117
rolf-peter horstmann
7 HölderlinandNovalis 141
charles larmore
8 Hegel’sPhenomenologyandLogic:anoverview 161
terry pinkard
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9 Hegel’spracticalphilosophy:therealizationof freedom 180
robert pippin
10 Germanrealism:theself-limitationof idealistthinkinginFichte,
Schelling,andSchopenhauer 200
günterzöller
11 PoliticsandtheNewMythology:theturntoLateRomanticism 219
dieter sturma
12 GermanIdealismandthearts 239
andrew bowie
13 Thelegacyof idealisminthephilosophyof Feuerbach,Marx,
andKierkegaard 258
karl ameriks
Bibliography 282
Index 300
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CONTRIBUTORS
karl ameriks isMcMahon-HankProfessorof PhilosophyattheUniversity
of NotreDame.Heisco-editorof theseriesCambridgeTextsintheHistory
of Philosophy. He has written Kant’s Theory of Mind (2nd edn., 2000) and
Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the
Critical Philosophy (2000). He has co-edited The Modern Subject:
Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy (1995), and co-
translated Immanuel Kant/Lectures on Metaphysics (1997) and Edmund
Husserl,ExperienceandJudgment(1973).
frederick beiser is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. He has
writtenTheFateof Reason:GermanPhilosophyfromKanttoFichte(1987),
Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern
GermanPoliticalThought1790–1800(1992)andTheSovereigntyof Reason:
TheDefenseof RationalityintheEarlyEnglishEnlightenment(1996).Hehas
edited The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (1993), and The Early Political
Writingsof theGermanRomantics(1996).
andrew bowie isChairof GermanatRoyalHollowayCollege,Universityof
London.HehaswrittenAestheticsandSubjectivityfromKanttoNietzsche
(2nd edn., 2000), Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An
Introduction (1993), and From Romanticism to Critical Theory: the
Philosophyof GermanLiteraryTheory(1997).HehaseditedManfredFrank,
TheSubjectandtheText:EssaysonLiteraryTheoryandPhilosophy(1997),
and edited and translated Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy
(1994),andSchleiermacher,HermeneuticsandCriticismandOtherWritings
(1998).
daniel o. dahlstrom is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
He has co-edited The Emergence of German Idealism (1999). He has co-
edited and translated Schiller: Essays (1993) and edited and translated
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contributors
Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (1997). He has written Das logische
Vorurteil:UntersuchungenzurWahrheitstheoriedesfrühenHeidegger(1994)
aswellasnumerousarticlesonaestheticsandtopicsinclassicalandcontem-
poraryGermanphilosophy.
paul franks isAssistantProfessorof PhilosophyatIndianaUniversity.Heis
acontributortoTheCambridgeCompaniontoFichte(forthcoming).Hehas
writtenseveralarticlesonKant,Fichte,Hegel,transcendentalarguments,and
skepticism.Heiscompletingabookonthetranscendentalmethodsof Kant
andsomepost-Kantians.WithMichaelL.Morgan,heeditedandtranslated
FranzRosenzweig:TheologicalandPhilosophicalWritings(2000).
paul guyer is Florence R. C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the
Universityof Pennsylvania.HisbooksincludeKantandtheClaimsof Taste
(2nd edn., 1997), Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (1987), Kant and the
Experience of Freedom (1993), and Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness
(2000).HehaseditedTheCambridgeCompaniontoKant(1992)andother
anthologies.Heisgeneralco-editoroftheCambridgeEditionoftheworksof
Immanuel Kant, in which he has co-translated the Critique of Pure Reason
(1998) with Allen Wood. He has also co-translated (with Eric Matthews)
Kant’sCritiqueof thePowerof Judgment(2000).
rolf-peter horstmann is Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt
UniversityinBerlin.HeisauthorofOntologieundRelationen:Hegel,Bradley,
RussellunddieKontroverseüberinterneundexterneBeziehungen(1984),Die
Grenzen der Vernunft: eine Untersuchung zu Zielen und Motiven des
DeutschenIdealismus(3rdedn.,2000),andBausteineKritischerPhilosophie
(1997).Hehasco-editedHegel,JenaerSystementwürfe.Hehasalsoco-edited
collectionsof worksonKant,transcendentalarguments,Rousseau,aesthet-
ics,Hegel,andGermanIdealism.Heiscurrentlyservingaseditorforanew
translationof Nietzsche’sBeyondGoodandEvil.
charles larmore is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has written Patterns of Moral
Complexity (1987), Modernité et morale (1993), The Morals of Modernity
(1996),andTheRomanticLegacy(1996).
terry pinkard isProfessorof PhilosophyatGeorgetownUniversity.Hehas
written Democratic Liberalism and Social Union (1987), Hegel’s Dialectic:
TheExplanationof Possibility(1988),Hegel’sPhenomenology:TheSociality
of Reason(1994),andHegel:ABiography(2000).
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robert p. pippin isRaymondW.andMarthaHilpertGrunerDistinguished
Service Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Committee on Social
ThoughtattheUniversityof Chicago.Heiseditorof theCambridgeseries
Modern European Philosophy. His books include Kant’s Theory of Form
(1982), Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (1989),
Modernity as a Philosophical Problem (2nd edn., 1999), Idealism as
Modernism: Hegelian Variations (1997), and Henry James and Modern
MoralLife(2000).
dieter sturma is Professor of Philosophy at Essen University. He is the
authorofKantüberSelbstbewusstsein:zumZusammenhangvonErkenntnis-
kritikundTheoriedesSelbstbewusstseins(1985),PhilosophiederPerson:die
Selbstverhältnisse von Subjektivität und Moralität (1997), and Rousseau
(2000). He has co-edited The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in
Classical German Philosophy (1995). He has written numerous essays on
GermanIdealismandalsoontopicsincontemporarysystematicphilosophy.
allen wood is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His books
includeKant’sMoralReligion(1970),Kant’sRationalTheology(1978),Karl
Marx (1981), Hegel’s Ethical Thought (1990), and Kant’s Ethical Thought
(1999). He is general co-editor of the Cambridge Edition of the works of
Immanuel Kant, in which he has co-translated the Critique of Pure Reason
(1998)withPaulGuyer.HehasalsoeditedandtranslatedotherworksbyKant
onethics,anthropology,philosophyof religion,andphilosophyof history.
günter zöller isProfessorof PhilosophyattheUniversityof Munich.He
is the author of Theoretische Gegenstandsbeziehung bei Kant (1984) and
Fichte’sTranscendentalPhilosophy(1998)andhaseditedorco-editedMinds,
Ideas, and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern
Philosophy (1993), Figuring the Self: Subject, Individual, and Others in
ClassicalGermanPhilosophy(1997),andArthurSchopenhauer,PrizeEssay
On the Freedom of the Will (1999). Currently he is editing The Cambridge
CompaniontoFichte,thevolumeofKant’swritingsonanthropology,history,
andeducationintheCambridgeEditionoftheworksofImmanuelKant,and
Fichte’s System of Ethics. He is a general editor of the Bavarian Academy
Editionof Fichte’sCompleteWorks.
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