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Author Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Title The fate of reason : German philosophy from Kant to Fichte / Frederick C. Beiser
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 395 pages)
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Kant, Hamann, and the Rise of the Sturm und Drang -- Hamann's Historical and Philosophical Significance -- The London Conversion and Its Philosophical Consequences -- The Summer of 1759: The Stirrings of the Sturm und Drang -- The Sokratische Denkwurdigkeiten -- Kant, Hamann, and the Optimism Controversy -- The Kinderphysik Fiasco -- Aesthetica in nuce and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics -- The ""Metakritik"": Genesis, Contents, and Consequences -- 2. Jacobi and the Pantheism Controversy
The Historical Significance of the Pantheism Controversy -- The Rise of Spinozism in Germany, 1680-1786 -- The Dispute over Lessing's Spinozism -- The Philosophical Significance of the Controversy -- Jacobi's First Critique of Reason -- Jacobi's Second Critique of Reason -- Jacobi's Defense of Faith -- 3. Mendelssohn and the Pantheism Controversy -- Mendelssohn's Place in the History of Philosophy -- In Defense of Reason -- Mendelssohn's Nightmare, or, the Method of Orientation -- The Critique of Spinozism and Purified Pantheism -- Mendelssohn's Covert Critique of Kant
4. Kant, Jacobi, and Wizenmann in Battle -- Thomas Wizenmann's Resultate -- Kant's Contribution to the Pantheism Controversy -- Wizenmann's Reply to Kant -- Jacobi's Attack on Kant -- 5. Herder's Philosophy of Mind -- Herder and the Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind -- Herder on the Origin of Language -- Hamann and Herder's Debate over the Origin of Language -- Herder's Genetic Method -- The Principles of Herder's Vitalism -- Kant's Quarrel with Herder -- The Kant-Herder Controversy and the Origins of the Third Kritik -- Herder and the Pantheism Controversy -- 6. The Attack of the Lockeans
Popularphilosophie: A Sketch of a Movement -- Highlights of the Lockean Campaign against Kant -- The Garve Affair -- Two Early Critics: C.G. Selle and D. Tiedemann -- The Lockean Ringleader, J.G. Feder -- Feder's Circle: A.G. Tittel and A. Weishaupt -- The Good Pastor Pistorius -- 7. The Revenge of the Wolffians -- Leitmotivs of the Wolffian Campaign -- Revolution versus Reaction -- The Wolffian Defense of Metaphysics -- The Thorn in Kant's Side, J.A. Ulrich -- The Scrooge of Tiibingen, J.F. Flatt -- Platner's Meta-Critical Skepticism -- The Eberhard Controversy
The Consequences of the Wolffian Campaign -- 8. Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie -- Reinhold's Historical Significance -- Reinhold's Early Quarrel with Kant -- Reinhold's Briefe and Conversion to the Critical Philosophy -- The Path toward the Elementarphilosophie -- Reinhold's Critique of Kant and the Aims of the Elementarphilosophie -- Reinhold's Methodology -- Reinhold's Phenomenological Project -- Reinhold's Proposition of Consciousness and the New Theory of Representation -- The Crisis of the Elementarphilosophie -- 9. Schulze's Skepticism -- Schulze's Historical Significance and Influence
Analysis German philosophy, 1770-1800
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and index
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Subject Philosophy, German -- 18th century.
Reason -- History -- 18th century
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Philosophy, German
Reason
Filosofie.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674020696
0674020693