The Innovations of Idealism

by Rudiger Bubner

Overview

Originally published in German in 1995, this collection of essays has been written by the foremost representative of the hermeneutical approach in German philosophy. Offering a novel interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought—Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel—Rüdiger Bubner insightfully reviews the philosophical innovations in the complex of issues and aspirations which dominated German intellectual life from 1780 to 1830. This collection will be of special interest to students of German philosophy, literary theory and the history of ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521662628
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/28/2003
Series:	Modern European Philosophy
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. System: 1. Schelling's discovery and Schleiermacher's appropriation of Plato; 2. Aristotle and Schelling on the question of God; 3. Hegel's science of logic: the completion or the sublation of metaphysics?; 4. Hegel's political anthropology; Part II. History: 5. Transcendental philosophy and the problem of history; 6. Hegel's concept of phenomenology; 7. Rousseau, Hegel and the dialectic of enlightenment; 8. Closure and the understanding of history; Part III. Aesthetics: 9. From Fichte to Schlegel; 10. The dialectical significance of romantic irony; 11. Is there a hegelian theory of aesthetic experience?; 12. Hegel and Goethe.

Editorial Reviews

"The twelve essays that comprise his volume reveal Bubner to be an excellent mediator of the German Idealist tradition, as he expertly relates the continental tradition to the analytic one, the German idealist tradition to the ancient tradition, and the concerns of the past to present philosophical concerns." Philosophy Today, Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert

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