The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging new study examines the contribution made by the Critique of Pure Reason to this change of meaning. George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwarranted metaphysical assumptions that caused much confusion and rendered the First Critique vulnerable to being reabsorbed into modes of thought typical of Enlightenment popular philosophy. Amongst the striking features of this book are nuanced interpretations of Jacobi and Reinhold, a lucid exposition of Fichte's early thought, and a rare, detailed account of Enlightenment popular philosophy.

Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800

di Giovanni, George

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging new study examines the contribution made by the Critique of Pure Reason to this change of meaning. George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwarranted metaphysical assumptions that caused much confusion and rendered the First Critique vulnerable to being reabsorbed into modes of thought typical of Enlightenment popular philosophy. Amongst the striking features of this book are nuanced interpretations of Jacobi and Reinhold, a lucid exposition of Fichte's early thought, and a rare, detailed account of Enlightenment popular philosophy.

History

As he worked on the Jena sytem, Hegel's understanding of the nature of logic and its connection with metaphysics underwent changes crucial to his later system. As a result, logic acquired a new and expanded significance for him. This text is thus the key to an understanding of the works of Hegel's maturity, and to their relation to the major works of Schelling and Fichte that preceded them. Scholars from the universities of Guelph, Lethbridge, McGill, McMaster, Toronto, Trent, and York have prepared this translation, a work of critical analysis in its own right. The introduction by H.S. Harris adds a concrete dimension to Hegel's abstract categories, showing how, in developing these categories, Hegel was even at ths early date thinking deeply about the structure and life of society.

The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas) (Volume 9)

Politics & Social Sciences

Burbidge, John W.

Hegel

Philosophy

McGill-Queen's University Press

A key figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact on philosophical thought in the later part of the eighteenth century, notably the way Kant was received and the early development of post-Kantian idealism. This is an English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics.

Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill (Volume 18) (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)

Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel's own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza's monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di Giovanni argues, Hegel was much closer in spirit to Kant and Fichte than to Schelling. This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in post-Kantian Idealism, Romanticism, and metaphysics.

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831

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Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800

Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800

The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas) (Volume 9)

Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill (Volume 18) (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831