A01=Will Dudley
Absolute Knowing
Ancient Sceptics
Author_Will Dudley
Category=QD
Category=QDH
conscious
Conscious Subjects
critical
critical rationality
Early Romantic Circle
Empirical Physics
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existentialist critique
Fichte's Project
Fichte's View
Fichte’s Project
Fichte’s View
Finite Subjects
Foundational Science
Hegel's Philosophical System
Indeterminate Immediacy
intellectual
Intentional Principles
Internal Beings
intuition
Kant's Practical Philosophy
Kant’s Practical Philosophy
Marxist theory origins
Metaphysical Knowledge
Natural World
Objectively Purposive
Ontological Absolute
philosophical
philosophy
philosophy of freedom in modernity
post-Kantian philosophy
practical
Presuppositionless Philosophy
Priori Philosophy
romanticism influence
Schelling Reasons
Schelling's Early Works
Schelling's Positive Philosophy
Schelling’s Positive Philosophy
subject
system
systematic metaphysics
transcendental
Transcendental Idealism
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781844650965
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Understanding German Idealism" provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged in 1781, with the publication of Kant's monumental "Critique of Pure Reason", and ended fifty years later, with Hegel's death. The thinkers of this period, and the themes they developed revolutionized almost every area of philosophy and had an impact that continues to be felt across the humanities and social sciences today. Notoriously complex, the central texts of German Idealism have confounded the most capable and patient interpreters for more than 200 years. "Understanding German Idealism" aims to convey the significance of this philosophical movement while avoiding its obscurity. Readers are given a clear understanding of the problems that motivated Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel and the solutions that they proposed. Dudley outlines the main ideas of transcendental idealism and explores how the later German Idealists attempted to carry out the Kantian project more rigorously than Kant himself, striving to develop a fully self-critical and rational philosophy, in order to determine the meaning and sustain the possibility of a free and rational modern life. The book examines some of the most important early criticisms of German Idealism and the philosophical alternatives to which they led, including romanticism, Marxism, existentialism, and naturalism.
Will Dudley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Williams College, Massachusetts.
