German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
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Studies in German Idealism
Series Editor: Reinier Munk, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Advisory Editorial Board: Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University, U.S.A. Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University, U.S.A. George di Giovanni, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Detlev Pätzold, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Andrea Poma, University of Torino, Italy
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GERMAN IDEALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE: KANT, FICHTE, SCHELLING, AND HEGEL
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NECTARIOS G. LIMNATIS
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Nectarios G. Limnatis Hofstra University Department of Philosophy Hempstead NY 11549-1000 USA
ISBN 978-1-4020-8799-8
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
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EPISTEMOLOGY OR METAPHYSICS? THE KANTIAN BACKGROUND I. Scientific Metaphysics? II. Transcendentalism Versus Realism? III. The Ontological Facet: The Transcendental Self and the Thing-in-itself IV. From the Ontological to the Logical: Understanding, Reason, and Totality V. The Logical Facet: Kant’s Relation to Formal Logic and the Problem of Contradiction
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FROM EPISTEMOLOGY TO METAPHYSICS: FICHTE AND SCHELLING I. Fichte: The Thing-in-Itself and the Dialectical Leap A. The Notion of a Philosophical Science and its Relation to Logic B. The Transcendental Self as (F)act. C.Fichte’s New Dialectic and the Grasp of the Problem of Contradiction D.The Thing-in-itself and the Horizons of Knowledge II. Schelling: Epistemology and the Resurrection of Metaphysics A. Philosophy as Scientific System in the Early Schelling
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B. Identity, Logic and Contradiction in the Early Schelling C.The Twofold Nature of Schelling’s Transcendental Philosophy D.The Resurrection of Metaphysics and the Problem of Dialectic 3
FROM METAPHYSICS TO EPISTEMOLOGY I: FROM THE PHENOMENOLOGY TO THE LOGIC OR HEGEL’S CLAIM FOR ABSOLUTE KNOWING AND ITS MEANING I. Idealism, Reason, and Contradiction in the Early Hegel II. Hegel’s Phenomenology. The Coming-to-be of the Self and the Question of Intersubjectivity A. The Dialectic of Sense-Certainty B. Perception as Humanized Sense C.The Understanding as Conceptualizing Ability III. The Transition to Self-Consciousness and Idealism A. Activity and Intersubjectivity B. Excursus in Genetic Epistemology: Piaget, Vygotsky and Hegel on Thought, Language and Cu
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