The Transformation of Reason: Studies on System, Myth, and History in German Idealism

Diogo Ferrer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69784-3 (ISBN)

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Through skepticism and dialectics, German idealism transformed our understanding of the world and ourselves. This book shows how Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel revolutionized reason and made possible the critical reversal of values present in 20th-century philosophy.

Critique, skepticism, conflict, incompleteness, nothingness, irrational abyss, evil, and even genocide… That is what German idealism is also about.

Trying to chart human reason as an architectural system, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling uncovered that the most significant problems lie beneath the ground, in the foundations. Can reason survive the discovery of what lies at its depths? And should it?

This book ventures into these foundations, addressing the keen philosophical innovations of German idealists. Through comparative and development studies, it presents fresh interpretations of how these leading thinkers reconstructed reason on unexplored territories. The greatest hazard was triggering an enduring inversion of values.

Diogo Ferrer, Ph.D. (2004), University of Coimbra, Portugal, is Professor of Philosophy at that university. He has published and edited many books, translations, and articles on German idealism and 20th century philosophy, especially in Metaphysics, Aesthetics and History of Philosophy.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Studies in German Idealism ; 33
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	547 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	90-04-69784-5 / 9004697845
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69784-3 / 9789004697843
Zustand	Neuware