Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy

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Routledge, Sep 19, 2014 - Philosophy - 360 pages
"Kant, Kantianism and Idealism" presents an overview of German Idealism, the major movement in philosophy from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th Century. The period was dominated by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, whose work influenced not just philosophy, but also art, theology and politics. The volume covers not only these major figures but also their main followers and interpreters. These include Kant's younger contemporary Herder, his early critics such as Jacobi, Reinhold, and Maimon, and his readers Schiller and Schlegel - who shaped much of the subsequent reception of Kant in art, literature and aesthetics - as well as Schopenhauer, whose unique appropriation and criticism of theories of cognition later had a decisive influence on Nietzsche. The "Young Hegelians" - such as Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and David Friedrich Strauss, whose writings would influence Engels and Marx - are also discussed. The influence of Kant and German Idealism also extended into France, shaping the thought of such figures as Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Proudhon, whose work would prove decisive for subsequent philosophical, political, and economic thinking in Europe in the second half of the 19th century.
 

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Series Preface
Immanuel Kants turn to transcendental philosophy
Jacobi Reinhold Maimon
Johann Gottfried Herder
Schiller and Schlegel on the liberating prospects
lifeworld the Other and philosophical
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empirical and aesthetic
TERRY PINKARD
Utopian French socialism
Chronology
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