Continental Idealism

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Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In Continental Idealism , Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz.

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
The Seventeenth-Century Background to the Emergence of Continental Idealism	p. 6
Early-modern theology and natural philosophy	p. 6
Henry More and Newtonian "spiritualism"	p. 9
Leibniz, Clarke and Berkeley on space and God	p. 12
The Monadological World of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	p. 20
Leibniz's .monadological world	p. 20
Leibniz, the new physics, and the divine orderliness of the universe	p. 22
Leibniz's conception of the moral order	p. 25
The monadological conception of the soul and its capacities	p. 28
Leibniz and mystico-religious Neoplatonism	p. 32
Kant's Development from Physical to Moral Monadologist	p. 36
Kant's pre-critical physical monadology and the mind-body problem	p. 37
The role of Swedenborg in the transformation of Kant's pre-critical thought	p. 39
The role of Leibniz in the transformation of Kant's pre-critical thought	p. 40
The role of Rousseau in the transformation of Kant's pre-critical thought	p. 43
Kant's "semi-transcendental turn" in the Inaugural Dissertation of 1770	p. 44
Kant and the "Copernican" Conception of Transcendental Philosophy	p. 52
The Copernican reversal of perspective and its consequences for metaphysics	p. 54
The aporia of traditional metaphysics	p. 59
Kant's modernism	p. 61
Kant on Aristotle's "categories" and Plato's "ideas"	p. 63
Kant's "Plato"	p. 66
The Moral Framework of Metaphysics	p. 70
The primacy of practical reason in Kant's critical philosophy	p. 73
The object of "pure practical reason"-the moral law-can only be grounded in the form, rather than the empirical content, of the will	p. 76
Kant's political theory	p. 80
Concerns with Kant's practical philosophy	p. 83
The Later Kant as a "Post-Kantian" Philosopher?	p. 88
From empirical to transcendental accounts of Hutchesonian moral sense	p. 88
The ethical infrastructure of aesthetic judgment in the Critique of Judgment	p. 90
The symbolic dimension of beauty	p. 95
The teleology of the world considered as a whole	p. 97
Jena Post-Kantianism: Reinhold and Fichte	p. 103
Reinhold's "proposition of consciousness" and Schulze's critique	p. 103
Fichte's reconceptualizing of the mind as self-positing process	p. 106
Fichte's project of the Wissenschaftslehre	p. 108
Intersubjective recognition as a condition of self-consciousness	p. 113
The Jena Romanticism of Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling	p. 116
Friedrich Schlegel: Transcendental poetry and the unpresentable absolute	p. 118
Schlegel and the critique of foundationalism	p. 122
Schelling and Plato's world soul	p. 125
Schelling's philosophy of nature	p. 127
Art and mythology	p. 131
Hegel's Idealist Metaphysics of Spirit	p. 135
The puzzle of Hegel's attitude to religion and metaphysics	p. 136
Hegel's critique of Kant's idea of God	p. 138
The project of a "phenomenology of spirit"	p. 140
Self-negating shapes of consciousness	p. 143
Self-consciousness and the recognitive theory of spirit	p. 146
Phenomenology, logic and metaphysics	p. 150
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and the Ambiguous End of the Idealist Tradition	p. 155
Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will	p. 156
The task of transcending the will: Morality and art	p. 158
Schopenhauer and Fichte's transcendental idealism	p. 160
The early Nietzsche: Schopenhauer, Wagner and The Birth of Tragedy	p. 162
The later Nietzsche: Life after the deaths of tragedy and God	p. 165
Postscript: Idealism after the End of (Its) History	p. 175
Notes	p. 180
Bibliography	p. 204
Index	p. 221
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