Kant and the Historical Turn Philosophy As Critical Interpretation [Paperback]

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after Kant. Individual essays provide case studies in support of Ameriks's thesis that late 18th-century reactions to Kant initiated an historical turn, after which historical and systematic considerations became joined in a way that fundamentally distinguishes philosophy from science and art.

Introduction: On the Very Notion of an Historical Turn in Philosophy
Part I. Kant and After
1. Text and Context: Hermeneutical Prolegomena to Interpreting a Kant Text
2. Kantian Apperception and the Non-Cartesian Subject
3. Idealism from Kant to Berkeley
4. Kant, Hume, and the Problem of Moral Motivation
5. A Commonsense Kant?
6. The Critique of Metaphysics: The Structure and Fate of Kant's Dialectic
Part II. Reinhold and After
7. Reinhold's First Letters on Kant
8. Reinhold on Systematicity, Popularity, and 'The Historical Turn'
Part III. Hegel and After
9. Hegel's Aesthetics: New Perspectives on its Response to Kant and Romanticism
10. The Legacy of Idealism in the Philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard
Part IV. Contemporary Interpretations
11. On Beiser's German Idealism
12. The Key Role ofSelbstgef??hlin Philosophy's Aesthetic and Historical Turns
13. Historical Constellations and Copernican Contexts
Bibliography of Works Cited

This book is itself a fine contribution to the very practice of historically oriented philosophy it wishes to define. --Brian O'Connor,The Review of Metaphysics

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