Contemporary thought often claims the "death of the subject" and postmodernists typically contend that the standpoint of human subjectivity has been surpassed as a foundation for philosophy. A proper appreciation of these influential claims requires an understanding of the main tradition in which the standpoint of subjectivity was articulated, namely the classical philosophy of German Idealism. This book provides such an understanding. The authors assess what is dead and what is alive today in the philosophy of subjectivity, and offer the most thorough study available on the background of the postmodern assault on the primacy of the subject. Tracing this assault back to reactions to Kant, they elucidate the historical and systematic details of the development of the concept of the self in Classical philosophy from Kant to Fichte and Hegel. Manfred Frank, one of Europe's most prominent and prolific writers on neo-structuralism, provides two major contributions-an account of the philosophical foundations of the reaction to Kant in early romanticism (especially Novalis), and a defense of the ineliminability of self-consciousness against its critics in current analytic philosophy. Essays by other contributors-including Henry Allison, Robert Pippin, Daniel Breazeale, Guenter Zoeller, Ludwig Siep, Veronique Zanetti, and Georg Mohr-relate the concept of the self to topics such as freedom, teleology, modernity, and intersubjectivity.
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Karl Ameriks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Kant's Theory of Mind, he is a past president of the North American Kant Society. Dieter Sturma teaches at Luneburg University in Germany, and is author of Kant uber Selbstbewusstsein.
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- The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel by Sally Sedgwick on 4 pages
- The Logic of Affect by Paul Redding in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The "Critical" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment by G. Felicitas Munzel on page 81, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 by Frederick C. Beiser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy As Critical Interpretation by Karl Ameriks on page 39, and page 52
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