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German idealism and the problem of knowledge : Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
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German idealism and the problem of knowledge : Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel

Author: Nektarios Limnatis
Publisher: Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2008.
Series: Studies in German idealism, 8.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to an array of concepts. Emphasizing the unity between the logical and the historical, the distinction between intellectual and rational explanation, and the cognitive importance of contradiction, this book argues for the prospect of an evolving totality of reflective reason.
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Limnatis, Nektarios.
German idealism and the problem of knowledge.
Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2008
(OCoLC)233934087
Named Person: Immanuel Kant; Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Nektarios Limnatis
ISBN: 9781402088001 1402088000
OCLC Number: 310352979
Description: 1 online resource.
Contents: INTRODUCTION. 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'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's Claim for Absolute Knowing and its Meaning 3.1. Idealism, Reason and Contradiction in the Early Hegel 3.2. Hegel' 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
Series Title: Studies in German idealism, 8.
Responsibility: by Nectarios G. Limnatis.

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The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.  Read more...

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