The brief summary here does not come close to doing justice to Nisenbaum's rich and provocative book, nor does it capture the deep commitment to the importance of philosophy that she clearly displays ... [it] will be of great value to anyone interested in the period, or in the fate of metaphysics more broadly.

Autorentext

Karin Nisenbaum is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. Her research focuses on issues of metaphysics and practical reason in Kant's critical philosophy, as developed by post-Kantian thinkers such as Fichte and Schelling and by Jewish philosophers such as Maimon and Rosenzweig.

Klappentext

This book argues that the development of German philosophy from Kant, through post-Kantian German Idealism, to the thought of Franz Rosenzweig, was largely driven by the perceived promise of Kant's philosophy for solving the conflict of reason, but also by its perceived shortcomings in solving this conflict.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Part I. Nihilism, Reason, and Freedom in the Early Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy

• Chapter 1. The Legacy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Restoring Human Reason to Its Full Measure

• Chapter 2. The Legacy of Salomon Maimon: Philosophy as a System Actualized in Freedom

• Part II. The Primacy of the Practical in Early Fichte and Schelling

• Chapter 3. Kant's Deduction of Freedom: The Performative and First-Personal Aspect of Transcendental Arguments

• Chapter 4. The Unconditioned in Human Knowledge: A Theoretical Puzzle, or a Practical Demand?

• Part III. Nihilism and the Affirmation of the World in Schelling and Rosenzweig

• Chapter 5. Why Is There a Realm of Experience at All? Love and Defiance as the Two Forms of Human Individuation

• Chapter 6. The Star of Redemption as a System of Philosophy: The Human Word as a Response to the Word of God, and Human Words and Actions as the Means for the Unification of God

• Conclusion

• Bibliography

• Index