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Book SynopsisKant, 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsChapter 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
