German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge:: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel

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Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 14, 2008 - Philosophy - 428 pages

The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. The book offers a fresh and challenging analysis.

 

Contents

The ThinginItself and the Dialectical Leap
73
The Thinginitself and the Horizons
109
Epistemology and the Resurrection
126
The Twofold Nature of Schellings
138
FROM METAPHYSICS TO EPISTEMOLOGY
179
Hegels Phenomenology The Comingtobe of the Self
191
The Transition to SelfConsciousness and Idealism
213
FROM METAPHYSICS TO EPISTEMOLOGY
255
CONCLUSION
369
AUTHOR INDEX
405
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Nectarios G. Limnatis received a Ph.D. (2004) from the Department of Philosophy, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research, and another Ph.D. (1996) from the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University. His research interests span the History of Philosophy (particularly, German Idealism from Kant to Hegel and Marx), 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Ethics. He has taught at various universities in Europe and the USA, and is currently teaching at Hofstra University in New York. Besides articles and book reviews in several languages, he has written Manipulation: Essence, Appearances, Ways of Sublation (Moscow: Ekonomycheskaya Demokratya 2000, in Russian), and co-edited Prospettive sul Postmoderno, vol. 1: Considerazioni epistemologiche, vol. 2: Ricerche etico-politiche (Milano: Edizioni Mimesis, 2006, in Italian). At present, he is working on the edition of a book called The Contours of Hegel’s Dialectic (forthcoming). Further projects include A Critical Theory of Globalization and Hegel and Analytic Philosophy.

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