Name: German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801
Author: Beiser, Frederick C.
ISBN: 9780674007697

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German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801

by Frederick C. Beiser

Harvard University Press, 2002
Paper: 978-0-674-02717-6 | Cloth: 978-0-674-00769-7 | eISBN: 978-0-674-02070-2
Library of Congress Classification B2745.B47 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 141.094309033

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism as a doctrine, Frederick Beiser exposes a strong objective, or realist, strain running from Kant to Hegel and identifies the crucial role of the early romantics—Hölderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis—as the founders of absolute idealism.

REVIEWS

[A] magnificent new book...That Beiser manages to keep the reader afloat as he steers through such deep and turbulent waters deserves the highest praise. Expository writing of unfailing lucidity is supported by reference to an unrivalled range of sources...I learned something from this book on almost every page...For anyone at all seriously interested in the topic this is now the place to start.
-- Michael Rosen Times Literary Supplement

Frederick Beiser's new work provides English readers [with] a comprehensive and masterly explanation of the central forces that shaped the important philosophical movement known as German idealism. German Idealism is well written, exquisitely argued, and copiously researched. It easily outdistances much of the German scholarship and will serve as a benchmark for future English language scholarship. It is a must-read for scholars of the field, a helpful, accessible guide for the interested, and a valuable resource for all historians of philosophy.
-- Grant Kaplan Review of Metaphysics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Introduction

I. Kant’s Critique of Idealism

Introduction: Kant and the Problem of Subjectivism

1. Idealism in the Precritical Years

2. Transcendental Idealism and Empirical Realism

3. The First Edition Refutation of Skeptical Idealism

4. The First Edition Refutation of Dogmatic Idealism

5. Kant and Berkeley

6. The Second Edition Refutation of Problematic Idealism

7. Kant and the Way of Ideas

9. The Status of the Transcendental

8. The Transcendental Subject

10. Kant’s Idealism in the Opus postumum

II. Fichte’s Critique of Subjectivism

Introduction: The Interpretation of Fichte’s Idealism

1. Fichte and the Subjectivist Tradition

2. The Battle against Skepticism

3. Criticism versus Dogmatism

4. Freedom and Subjectivity

5. Knowledge of Freedom

6. Critical Idealism

7. The Refutation of Idealism

8. The Structure of Intersubjectivity

III. Absolute Idealism

1. Absolute Idealism: General Introduction

2. Hölderlin and Absolute Idealism

3. Novalis’ Magical Idealism

4. Friedrich Schlegel’s Absolute Idealism

IV. Schelling and Absolute Idealism

Introduction: The Troublesome Schellingian Legacy

1. The Path toward Absolute Idealism

2. The Development of Naturphilosophie

3. Schelling’s Break with Fichte

4. Problems, Methods, and Concepts of Naturphilosophie

5. Theory of Life and Matter

6. Schelling’s Absolute Idealism

7. The Dark Night of the Absolute

8. Absolute Knowledge

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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