German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel

The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention in recent years. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In examining the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to a broad...

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Main Author: Limnatis, Nectarios G. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Series:Studies in German Idealism, 8
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8800-1
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Epistemology or Metaphysics? The Kantian Background. 1.1 Scientific Metaphysics? 1.2. Transcendentalism versus Realism? 1.3. The Ontological Facet: the Transcendental Self and the Thing-in-itself. 1.4. From the Ontological to the Logical. Understanding, Reason and Totality. 1.5. The Logical Facet: Kant<U+0019>s Relation to Formal Logic and the Problem of Contradiction
  • 2. From Epistemology to Metaphysics: Fichte and Schelling. 2.1. Fichte: The Thing-in-itself and the Dialectical Leap. 2.2. Schelling: Epistemology and the Resurrection of Metaphysics
  • 3. From Metaphysics to Epistemology I: From the Phenomenology to the Logic or Hegel<U+0019>s Claim for Absolute Knowing and its Meaning. 3.1. Idealism, Reason and Contradiction in the Early Hegel. 3.2. Hegel<U+0019> Phenomenology. The Coming to be of the Self and the Question of Intersubjectivity. 3.3. The Transition to Self-Consciousness and Idealism
  • 4. From Metaphysics to Epistemology II: Logic and Reality. 4.1. The Idea of an Epistemological Reading of the Science of Logic. 4.2. Toward an Epistemological Totality. Conclusion. Bibliography.