Rousseau and German Idealism

Rousseau and German Idealism PDF Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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A systematic account of Rousseau's significance in relation to Kant's, Fichte's and Hegel's views on freedom, dependence and necessity.

Rousseau and German Idealism

Rousseau and German Idealism PDF Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Book Description
A systematic account of Rousseau's significance in relation to Kant's, Fichte's and Hegel's views on freedom, dependence and necessity.

Rousseau and German Idealism

Rousseau and German Idealism PDF Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107292611
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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The claim that Rousseau's writings influenced the development of Kant's critical philosophy, and German idealism, is not a new one. As correct as the claim may be, it does not amount to a systematic account of Rousseau's place within this philosophical tradition. It also suggests a progression whereby Rousseau's achievements are eventually eclipsed by those of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, especially with respect to the idea of freedom. In this book David James shows that Rousseau presents certain challenges that Kant and the idealists Fichte and Hegel could not fully meet, by making dependence and necessity, as well as freedom, his central concerns, and thereby raises the question of whether freedom in all its forms is genuinely possible in a condition of human interdependence marked by material inequality. His study will be valuable for all those studying Kant, German idealism and the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas.

Being After Rousseau

Being After Rousseau PDF Author: Richard L. Velkley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226852560
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and society that Rousseau brought to the fore. The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique, they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has distorted.

The Innovations of Idealism

The Innovations of Idealism PDF Author: Rudiger Bubner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521662628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Institutions of Education: Then and Today

Institutions of Education: Then and Today PDF Author: Paul Cobben
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004184155
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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The theme of “Institutions of Education: then and today” not only corresponds with the basic questions raised in German Idealism, but is also central to the question of whether it is legitimate to study German Idealism in our era. Elaborating on this project immediately raises the problem of institutional differentiation, which characterizes multicultural society. Does the variety of educational institutions not, by definition, exclude the shared conception and realization of adulthood that is presupposed by German Idealism? This book shows that German Idealism can still participate in the contemporary debate on education: it is not only helpful in raising relevant questions, but can also be transformed into positions which can deal with the pluriformity that characterizes contemporary society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau PDF Author: Tracy B. Strong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461665612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.

Mythology, Madness, and Laughter

Mythology, Madness, and Laughter PDF Author: Markus Gabriel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441115773
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Žižek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom. Engaging with three central figures of the German idealist movement, Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte, Gabriel, and Žižek, who here shows himself to be one of the most erudite and important scholars of German idealism, ask how is it possible for Being to appear in reflection without falling back into traditional metaphysics. By applying idealistic theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, including the problem of madness and everydayness in Hegel, this hugely important book aims to reinvigorate a philosophy of finitude and contingency, topics at the forefront of contemporary European philosophy. MARKUS GABRIEL is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, NY. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including Der Mensch im Mythos (De Gruyter, 2006), and Das Absolute und die Welt in Schellings Freiheitsschrift (Bonn University Press, 2006).

Fichte's Republic

Fichte's Republic PDF Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Book Description
An original interpretation of the connection between idealism, history and nationalism in Fichte's general philosophical, educational and moral project.

The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism

The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism PDF Author: Karl Ameriks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107147840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Book Description
Comprehensive and incisive, with three new chapters, this updated edition sees world-renowned scholars explore a rich and complex philosophical movement.

Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment

Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment PDF Author: David Lay Williams
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271045511
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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"In this sterling, deeply researched study, Williams explores how thinkers ranging from Hobbes to d'Holbach highlight various sets of ideas that Rousseau combated in developing his philosophical teaching. The account of Rousseau's predecessors who might be called Platonists is especially interesting, as is the account of those who qualify as materialists. Moreover, Williams provides a good overview of Rousseau's teaching, demonstrates a commendable grasp of the relevant secondary literature, and argues ably for the superiority of his own interpretations ... Clearly written and superbly organized, this book contributes much to Rousseau studies. An indispensable book for Rousseau scholars, this volume also will appeal to general readers and students at all levels."--C.E. Butterworth, CHOICE.