Overview

Scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical philosophy between Kant and Hegel. The essays discuss, in addition to Kant, Hegel and Fichte, relatively little-known thinkers such as Pistorius, Ulrich, Maimon, Erhard, E. Reimarus, Reinhold, Jacobi, F. Schlegel, Humboldt, Dalberg, Gentz, Rehberg, and Möser. Issues discussed include the empty formalism objection, the separation between right and morality, freedom and determinism, nihilism, the right to revolution, ideology, and the limits of the liberal state. Taken together, the essays provide an historically informed and philosophically nuanced picture of the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy.

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Author:   James A. Clarke (University of York) ,  Gabriel Gottlieb
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781108703284

ISBN 10:   1108703283
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   10 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction James A. Clarke and Gabriel Gottlieb; 1. The original empty formalism objection: Pistorius and Kant Paul Guyer; 2. Freedom and ethical necessity: a Kantian response to Ulrich (1788) Katerina Deligiorgi; 3. Maimonides and Kant in the ethical thought of Salomon Maimon Timothy Quinn; 4. Erhard on right and morality James A. Clarke; 5. Erhard on revolutionary action Michael Nance; 6. Elise Reimarus on freedom and rebellion Reed Winegar; 7. Freedom and obligation: Kant, Reinhold, Fichte Daniel Breazeale; 8. Fichte's ethical holism Owen Ware; 9. Jacobi on practical nihilism Benjamin Crowe; 10. The political implications of Friedrich Schlegel's poetic, republican discourse Elizabeth Millán Brusslan; 11. The limits of state action: Humboldt, Dalberg, and perfectionism after Kant Douglas Moggach; 12. Echoes of revolution: Hegel's debt to the German Burkeans Reidar Maliks; 13. Public opinion and ideology in Hegel's Philosophy of Right Karen Ng.

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'This book's title perfectly captures its content ... This is certainly a niche work and will largely interest historical specialists. But the scholarship is solid and will give readers a vivid sense of the lively debates on practical philosophy that informed and reacted to the better-known works of Kant and Hegel ... Recommended.' S. E. Forschler, Choice

'This book's title perfectly captures its content … This is certainly a niche work and will largely interest historical specialists. But the scholarship is solid and will give readers a vivid sense of the lively debates on practical philosophy that informed and reacted to the better-known works of Kant and Hegel … Recommended.' S. E. Forschler, Choice

Author Information

James A. Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. He has published several articles on Fichte and Hegel. He is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, with responsibility for translations. Gabriel Gottlieb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. In addition to publishing multiple articles on Fichte, he is the editor of Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2016).

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