The Reception of Kant’s Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel

The period from Kant to Hegel is one of the most intense and rigorous in modern philosophy. The central problem at the heart of it was the development of a new standard of theoretical reflection and of the principle of rationality itself. The essays in this volume consider both the development of Kant’s system of transcendental idealism in the three Critiques, the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, and the Opus Postumum, as well as the reception and transformation of that idealism in the work of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel.

• Kant and his followers are a strong area for Cambridge • Pre-eminent list of contributors (Anglo-American and German), many of whom are successful Cambridge authors (e.g. Henry Allison, Karl Ameriks, Paul Guyer, Robert Pippin and Allen Wood)

Contents

Notes on the contributors; Introduction: Idealism from Kant to Hegel Sally Sedgwick; 1. The unity of nature and freedom: Kant’s conception of the system of philosophy Paul Guyer; 2. Spinozism, freedom and transcendental dynamics in Kant’s final system of transcendental idealism Jeffrey Edwards; 3. Is the Critique of Judgment 'post-critical'? Henry E. Allison; 4. The 'I' as principle of practical philosophy Allen W. Wood; 5. The practical foundation of philosophy in Kant, Fichte and after Karl Ameriks; 6. From critique to metacritique: Fichte’s transformation of Kant’s transcendental idealism Günter Zöller; 7. Fichte’s alleged subjective, psychological, one-sided idealism Robert Pippin; 8. The spirit of the Wissenschaftslehre Daniel Breazeale; 9. The beginnings of Schelling’s philosophy of nature Manfred Baum; 10. The nature of subjectivity: the critical and systematic function of Schelling’s philosophy of nature Dieter Sturma; 11. Substance, causality and the question of method in Hegel’s Science of Logic Stephen Houlgate; 12. Point of view of man or knowledge of God: Kant and Hegel on concept, judgement and reason Béatrice Longuenesse; 13. Kant, Hegel and the fate of ‘the’ intuitive intellect Kenneth R. Westphal; 14. Metaphysics and morality in Kant and Hegel Sally Sedgwick; Bibliography; Index.