... revision of transcendental idealism based on the concepts that he tackled in his Hebrew manuscript, Hesheq Shelomo. This chapter examines how Maimon employed the tools and terms of his medieval philosophical perfectionism to revise Kantian idealism. It discusses issues of doctrine, genre...

...The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book retraces the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to the literature and philosophy of Romanticism, is repeatedly tied...

...This chapter begins by sketching the approaches present in American philosophy, and at UCLA, as the Cold War began: idealism, pragmatism, materialism, and logical positivism/empiricism. Idealism and pragmatism shared the project of “edification,” of showing students how to integrate with a larger...

... perspectives and goals, which sought to synthesize transcendental philosophy with his artistic insights and his interest in the natural sciences of his time. Its conclude that in Novalis we see a very particular brand of idealism, what he himself terms “empirical idealism,” and argues, in opposition to Frank...

... the transition in Schlegel’s thought in his 1800-1801 Jena Lectures on Transcendental Idealism. In addition, the chapter argues that Schlegel’s conceptions of truth and knowledge are not— as has been widely thought— skeptical, but idealistic, and proposes that Schlegel develops a “hermeneutic idealism,” in which...

... unconditioned first principle absolute the Jacobi Friedrich Heinrich Spinoza Baruch Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich I self the Reinhold Karl Leonhard substance notion of system Being knowledge act of Platonism self consciousness transcendental idealism transcendental philosophy discursive intellect...

... of nature romanticism substance notion of thing in itself Ding an sich notion of absolute idealism Bildung education development formation idealism infinite the Jacobi Friedrich Heinrich mind in relation to nature Novalis Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von...

... this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also point these traditions in exciting new directions. Revisiting the philosopher’s key texts, the book calls attention to Hegel’s reformulation of liberal and Cartesian conceptions of subjectivity, identifying...

... pedagogy politics aesthetics radical art artworks disinterest ego ideal Marx Karl materialist aesthetics politicization radical aesthetics analogy “as if” moment in aesthetics formalization Germany Kant Immanuel Subject Subject without properties abstraction alternative modes of living...

...This chapter argues that like Meillassoux, Levinas opposes correlationism—a term encompassing both idealism and anti-realism in philosophy. However, Levinas’s attempt to overcome correlationism differs markedly from that of Meillassoux. Whereas Meillassoux argues that mathematizable, scientific...

...The book is a collection of chapters on the work of Charles S. Peirce that grew out of conversations between the authors over the last decade and a half. The chapters focus primarily on Peirce's consideration of realism and idealism as philosophical outlooks. Some deal directly with Peirce's...

... German Idealism Darwin History of Biology Biopolitics Nazism The metaphysical a priori of modernity reads as follows: freedom is the autonomy of the human will. Three possible articulations of autonomy derive from this a priori: the law, labor, and life. The law...

... Kamin Leon Lewontin Richard Rose Steven Benjamin Walter Canguilhem Georges Jonas Hans Life Metaphysics Kant German Idealism Darwin History of Biology Biopolitics Nazism “The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only...

... of the will God Herman Barbara idealism Lef Hegelians Marx Karl moral guidance concrete Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph soul Derrida Jacques Habermas Jürgen Korsgaard Christine logical positivism MacIntyre Alasdair Papineau David Rawls John Rorty Richard Sedgwick Sally Taylor Charles Williams...

... Giuseppe ethical life German language Christianity Company of Words The Houlgate Stephen “Pangur Ban” Kant Hegel intellectual intuition cognition epistemology ontology transcendental idealism thing-in-itself noumenon KANT’S EPISTEMOLOGY AND HIS ONTOLOGY are difficult enough to disentangle...

... of an overall interpretation of Hegel’s project as a linguistic, “definitional” system, this book offers major reinterpretations of Hegel’s views: The Kantian thing-in-itself is not denied but relocated as a temporal aspect of our experience. Hegel’s linguistic idealism is understood in terms of his realistic...

...This chapter posits that all forms of representationalism are based on metaphysical realism. Later forms of idealism move progressively away from representationalism and metaphysical realism, but not from realism as such, insofar as they base claims to know on empirical realism, or knowledge...

...This chapter reports the younger generation of liberals who have abandoned idealism for realism, thus jeopardizing the continuation of the most important defining quality of the liberal internationalist tradition. It is much more difficult to justify the Iraq war in October 2004 than...

...As the common sense view of perception, Direct Realism rightly stands in a privileged position in relation to rival perceptual theories, Idealism and Indirect Realism. For most thinkers, rejecting Direct Realism would require extensive and unwelcome revisions to many other views. Furthermore...

...This article examines the impact of idealism on the history of philosophy and literature. It considers idealism as a historically and culturally significant intersection of philosophy and literature, and as a set of ideas about art that profoundly affected both literature and the way people thought...