Synopses & Reviews
Review
"The twelve essays that comprise his volume reveal Bubner to be an excellent mediator of the German Idealist tradition, as he expertly relates the continental tradition to the analytic one, the German idealist tradition to the ancient tradition, and the concerns of the past to present philosophical concerns." Philosophy Today, Elizabeth MillÂn-Zaibert
Synopsis
Originally published in German in 1995, this collection of essays has been written by the foremost representative of the hermeneutical approach in German philosophy. Offering a novel interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought--Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel--R diger Bubner insightfully reviews the philosophical innovations in the complex of issues and aspirations which dominated German intellectual life from 1780 to 1830. This collection will be of special interest to students of German philosophy, literary theory and the history of ideas.
Synopsis
This collection of essays offers an original interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought. This collection will be of special interest to students of German philosophy, literary theory and the history of ideas.
Table of Contents
Part I. System: 1. Schelling's discovery and Schleiermacher's appropriation of Plato; 2. Aristotle and Schelling on the question of God; 3. Hegel's science of logic: the completion or the sublation of metaphysics?; 4. Hegel's political anthropology; Part II. History: 5. Transcendental philosophy and the problem of history; 6. Hegel's concept of phenomenology; 7. Rousseau, Hegel and the dialectic of enlightenment; 8. Closure and the understanding of history; Part III. Aesthetics: 9. From Fichte to Schlegel; 10. The dialectical significance of romantic irony; 11. Is there a hegelian theory of aesthetic experience?; 12. Hegel and Goethe.