Confronting the German Idealist Tradition

The philosophical activity of modern Germany represents a peak in the history of philosophy beginning from Thales in ancient Greece. This book attempts to reconsider the conventional image of 19th-century German philosophy. To this end, it illuminates a forgotten philosophical stream contemporaneous with so-called "German idealism."

Autorentext

Tadahiro Oota is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Numazu College (Japan). He is the author of a paper titled "Jakob Friedrich Fries as an Opponent of German Idealism," in: Anti-Idealism: Re-interpreting a German Discourse, De Gruyter, 2019.

Inhalt

Preface

1 Introduction

1.1 Why should 19th-century German philosophy be addressed today?

1.2 Why should we begin with the reconstruction of Fries' philosophy?

2 Jakob Friedrich Fries' philosophy

2.1 Fries' conception of a critique of reason

2.2 On the construction of a metaphysical system: From the viewpoint of the method of philosophy

3 The Friesian and Neo-Friesian schools

3.1 The Friesian school

3.2 The Neo-Friesian school

4 Conclusion

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