The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy: Between Biology, Anthropology, and Metaphysics

337 Pages·2021·3.453 MB·English

by  Manja Kisner, Jörg Noller

The Concept of Drive in
Classical German
Philosophy
Between Biology,
Anthropology, and
Metaphysics
Edited by
Manja Kisner · Jörg Noller
The Concept of Drive in Classical German
Philosophy
Manja Kisner • Jörg Noller
Editors
The Concept of Drive
in Classical German
Philosophy
Between Biology, Anthropology,
and Metaphysics
Editors
Manja Kisner Jörg Noller
University of Wuppertal University of Munich
Wuppertal, Germany Munich, Germany
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Acknowledgments
Most of the chapters included in this volume were presented at the con-
ference “The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy,” which
was held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich on October
11 and 12, 2019. We would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for
generously sponsoring the conference and the participants for presenting
and discussing their papers. We would also like to thank Jakob Grüner
for his editorial support with the volume.
—Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller
2 The Theory of Drive: The Dual Legacy of Leibniz’s
Theory of Appetition 11
Catherine Wilson
3 Between Reimarus and Kant: Blumenbach’s Concept of
Trieb 39
John H. Zammito
4 Stoic Dispositional Innatism and Herder’s Concept
of Force 61
Nigel DeSouza
5 The Economy of the Bildungstrieb in Goethe’s
Comparative Anatomy 83
Andrew Cooper
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6 “ Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die
Triebe”: Jacobi on Reason as a Form of Life 107
George di Giovanni
7 K ant on Driving Forces: Parallels and Differences in
Kant’s Conceptualization of Trieb and Triebfeder 127
Manja Kisner
8 Th e Drive to Society in Kant’s Critique of the Power
of Judgment 149
Dietmar Heidemann
9 F eeling and Life in Kant’s Account of the Beautiful and
the Sublime 169
Yoon H. Choi and Alix Cohen
10 Equine Driving: Plato, Kant and Fichte on the
Teamwork of the Mind 191
Günter Zöller
11 “The Drive to Be an I Is at the Same Time the Drive to
Think and to Feel”: Hardenberg/Novalis on Drives,
Faculties, and Powers 213
Violetta L. Waibel
12 D rive, Will, and Reason: Reinhold and Schiller on
Realizing Freedom after Kant 241
Jörg Noller
13 Drives in Schelling: Drives as Cognitive Faculties 255
Paul Ziche
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14 The Trieb of Dialectic: Systematic and Thematic
Extension of the Concept of Trieb in Hegel 281
Angelica Nuzzo
15 Trieb and Triebe in Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics
of Nature 299
Marco Segala
Person Index 323
Subject Index 327
Notes on Contributors
Yoon H. Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy
at Marquette University, USA. Prior to that, she was a postdoc at Tufts
University. She is working on an account of Kant’s theory of self-
consciousness and self-cognition that understands the self in question as
the human being: an embodied rational agent who essentially feels her
existence as much as she thinks it.
Alix Cohen is a reader at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the
author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History
(2009) and has written articles and book chapters on Kant, including
most recently “A Kantian Account of Emotions as Feelings” (Mind) and
“Kant on Epistemic Autonomy” (Proceedings for the 13th International
Kant Congress). She is the co-editor of the British Journal for the History of
Philosophy.
Andrew  Cooper is an assistant professor in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. His work is inspired by
modern European philosophy, especially Kant and post-Kantian thought,
and deals with a range of issues in philosophy of science, metaphysics,
and aesthetics. He is author of The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant’s Critique
of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics (2016).
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Nigel DeSouza is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy
at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He works on the philosophy of
Herder, early modern philosophy, and contemporary ethics. He has written
articles on Herder’s metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language,
philosophy of history, and moral philosophy, as well as on the foundations
of ethical agency. His articles have appeared in The British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, Intellectual History Review, Herder Yearbook, the
Herder Handbuch, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. He is the co-edi-
tor of the volume Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (2017).
George di Giovanni is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill
University, Canada, specializing in the Late Enlightenment and in
German Idealism. He has introduced Fr. H. Jacobi in English with the
translation and analysis of his works (1994 & 2009); retranslated Hegel’s
The Science of Logic (2010), and contributed to the Cambridge edition of
Kant (1996). His many publications, in various international venues,
include Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The
Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800 (2005) and Hegel and the Challenge
of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831 (2021).
Dietmar Heidemann is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Luxembourg, Luxembourg. His specialization is Kant and German
Idealism, especially Hegel. He is the first chairman of the Kant-
Gesellschaft and a member of the Kant-Kommission of the Berlin-
Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Among his
publications are Der Begriff des Skeptizismus: Seine systematischen Formen,
die pyrrhonische Skepsis und Hegels Herausforderung (2007) and Kant und
das Problem des metaphysischen Idealismus (1998). He is also the editor-in-
chief of the Kant Yearbook. His recent book is L’idéalisme: Une introduc-
tion à la philosophie classique allemande (foreseen for 2021).
Manja Kisner is lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wuppertal,
Germany. She completed her Ph.D. and postdoc studies from the
University of Munich. Her research focuses on classical German philoso-
phy and Schopenhauer. She is the author of Der Wille und das Ding an
sich: Schopenhauers Willensmetaphysik in ihrem Bezug zu Kants kritischer
Philosophie und dem nachkantischen Idealismus (2016) and has written
articles and book chapters on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer.