Fate of Reason German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte

Name: Fate of Reason German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte
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ISBN: 9780674295032

ISBN-10: 067429503X

ISBN-13: 9780674295032

Edition: 1987

Authors: Frederick C. Beiser

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The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modem Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed the decline of the Aufkldrung, the completion of Kant's philosophy, and the beginnings of post-Kantian idealism. Thanks to Beiser we can newly appreciate the influence of Kant's critics on the development of his philosophy. Beiser brings the controversies, and the personalities who engaged in them, to life and tells a story that has uncanny parallels with the…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.13" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Introduction



Kant, Hamann, and the Rise of the Sturm und Drang



Hamann's Historical and Philosophical Significance



The London Conversion and Its Philosophical Consequences



The Summer of 1759: The Stirrings of the Sturm und Drang



The Sokratische Denkwurdigkeiten



Kant, Hamann, and the Optimism Controversy



The Kinderphysik Fiasco



Aesthetica in nuce and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics



The ""Metakritik"": Genesis, Contents, and Consequences



Jacobi and the Pantheism Contro