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Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism

Edited by Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel - Contributions by Daniel Breazeale; Benjamin D. Crowe; Jeffrey Edwards; Yukio Irie; Tom Rockmore; Christian Tewes; Michael Vater and Günter Zöller

Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. The collection begins with a set of comparative essays centered on Kant’s transcendental idealism, placing special stress on the essentials of Kant’s moral theory, the metaphysical outlook bound up with it, and the conception of the legitimate role of religion supported by it. The spotlight then shifts to the post-Kantian period, in a series of essays exploring a variety of angles on Fichte’s pivotal role: his uncompromising constructivism, his overarching conception of the philosophical project, and his radical accounts of the nature of reason and the constitution of meaning. In the remaining essays, the focus falls on German idealism after Fichte, with particular attention to Jacobi’s critique of idealism as “nihilism,” Schelling’s development of an idealistic philosophy of nature, and Hegel’s development of an all-encompassing idealistic “science of logic.” The collection, edited by Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel, will be of great value to scholars interested in Kant, Fichte, German idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, European philosophy, or the history of ideas.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 282 • Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-8235-2 • Hardback • December 2014 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-0-7391-8236-9 • eBook • December 2014 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
Subjects: Philosophy / Metaphysics, Philosophy / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy / Movements / Idealism, Philosophy / Critical Thinking, Philosophy / Criticism
Halla Kim is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Steven Hoeltzel is associate professor of philosophy at James Madison University.

Chapter 1. Self-Love, Sociability, and Autonomy:
Some Presuppositions of Kant’s Account of Practical Law,
Jeffrey Edwards
Chapter 2. The Virtuous Republic:
Rousseau and Kant on the Relation between Civil and Moral Religion,
Günter Zöller
Chapter 3. Kant, Pistorius, and Accessing Reality,
Halla Kim
Chapter 4. Kant, Fichte, and Transcendental Idealism,
Tom Rockmore
Chapter 5. Fichte’s Project: The Jena
Wissenschaftslehre, Daniel Breazeale
Chapter 6. The Unity of Reason in Kant and Fichte,
Steven Hoeltzel
Chapter 7. Idealism and Nihilism,
Benjamin D. Crowe
Chapter 8. Fichte and Semantic Holism,
Yukio Irie
Chapter 9. “In and Of Itself Nothing is Finite”:
Schelling’s Nature (or So-called Identity) Philosophy,
Michael Vater
Chapter 10. Conceptual Schemes, Realism, and Idealism:
A Hegelian Approach to Concepts and Reality,
Christian Tewes
This rich collection reflects both the broad range and the high quality of the best contemporary scholarship on the idealist tradition. The collection brings together a number of leading commentators and broaches issues in semantic theory, political philosophy and social theory, as well as moral philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology. It represents a welcome trend in the best recent scholarship to reach back to Kant’s predecessors and contemporaries (e.g., Rousseau, Pistorius) as well as to his immediate successors (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) in coming to terms with the legacy of transcendental idealism.

— Wayne Martin, University of Essex


This volume is notable for its valuable essays by international experts who closely compare Kant not only with Fichte, but also with a range of other significant figures, including Hutcheson, Rousseau, Pistorius, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
— Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame


Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism

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Hardback
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  • Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. The collection begins with a set of comparative essays centered on Kant’s transcendental idealism, placing special stress on the essentials of Kant’s moral theory, the metaphysical outlook bound up with it, and the conception of the legitimate role of religion supported by it. The spotlight then shifts to the post-Kantian period, in a series of essays exploring a variety of angles on Fichte’s pivotal role: his uncompromising constructivism, his overarching conception of the philosophical project, and his radical accounts of the nature of reason and the constitution of meaning. In the remaining essays, the focus falls on German idealism after Fichte, with particular attention to Jacobi’s critique of idealism as “nihilism,” Schelling’s development of an idealistic philosophy of nature, and Hegel’s development of an all-encompassing idealistic “science of logic.” The collection, edited by Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel, will be of great value to scholars interested in Kant, Fichte, German idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, European philosophy, or the history of ideas.

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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 282 • Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
    978-0-7391-8235-2 • Hardback • December 2014 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
    978-0-7391-8236-9 • eBook • December 2014 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
    Subjects: Philosophy / Metaphysics, Philosophy / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy / Movements / Idealism, Philosophy / Critical Thinking, Philosophy / Criticism
Author
Author
  • Halla Kim is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

    Steven Hoeltzel is associate professor of philosophy at James Madison University.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1. Self-Love, Sociability, and Autonomy:
    Some Presuppositions of Kant’s Account of Practical Law,
    Jeffrey Edwards
    Chapter 2. The Virtuous Republic:
    Rousseau and Kant on the Relation between Civil and Moral Religion,
    Günter Zöller
    Chapter 3. Kant, Pistorius, and Accessing Reality,
    Halla Kim
    Chapter 4. Kant, Fichte, and Transcendental Idealism,
    Tom Rockmore
    Chapter 5. Fichte’s Project: The Jena
    Wissenschaftslehre, Daniel Breazeale
    Chapter 6. The Unity of Reason in Kant and Fichte,
    Steven Hoeltzel
    Chapter 7. Idealism and Nihilism,
    Benjamin D. Crowe
    Chapter 8. Fichte and Semantic Holism,
    Yukio Irie
    Chapter 9. “In and Of Itself Nothing is Finite”:
    Schelling’s Nature (or So-called Identity) Philosophy,
    Michael Vater
    Chapter 10. Conceptual Schemes, Realism, and Idealism:
    A Hegelian Approach to Concepts and Reality,
    Christian Tewes
Reviews
Reviews
  • This rich collection reflects both the broad range and the high quality of the best contemporary scholarship on the idealist tradition. The collection brings together a number of leading commentators and broaches issues in semantic theory, political philosophy and social theory, as well as moral philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology. It represents a welcome trend in the best recent scholarship to reach back to Kant’s predecessors and contemporaries (e.g., Rousseau, Pistorius) as well as to his immediate successors (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) in coming to terms with the legacy of transcendental idealism.

    — Wayne Martin, University of Essex


    This volume is notable for its valuable essays by international experts who closely compare Kant not only with Fichte, but also with a range of other significant figures, including Hutcheson, Rousseau, Pistorius, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
    — Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame


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