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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"German Idealism"”.
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
… </p><p> Of all the myriad formulations of idealism, Analytic Philosophers have consistently singled out German Idealism to either reject or misappropriate for its own ends. The most significant and provocative occurrences of this trend can be found in the writings of Moore, Russell, …
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Early Nineteenth Century German Idealism and Historical Perspectives in Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op. 35
… the stages of the philosophical thought of German Idealism. The philosophical systems of the post-Kantian generation were housed in the values of the Goethezeit, in which the concept of self was regarded as fundamental for the worldview. In Germany these systems generated a new intellectual …
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"Die Willkuer der Ichsucht": Jean Paul's "Clavis Fichtiana" and the critique of German idealism
… that the dawning of the Romantic movement in Germany occurred simultaneously with the emergence of the philosophical idealists. The attempt to expand upon Kant's Critical Philosophy resulted in the development of a number of ambitious philosophical systems, all of which claimed to be the …
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Mimesis, Widerstand, Subversion : Bettina von Arnims Briefroman Die Günderode als Ansatz diskursiver Entgrenzung
… Günderode was written during the period of early German romanticism. The novel consists of an exchange of letters between the literary figure Bettine and an opposite, Gunderode. This exchange takes place in the light of the philosophical discourse of German idealism, mainly represented by Johann …
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Maimon's Post-Kantian Skepticism
… and was thus crucial to the early development of German Idealism. Key aspects of Maimon’s transcendental philosophy remain, however, relatively obscure. In particular, it remains unclear to what degree Maimon’s skepticism is internal to the Kantian framework, and how this skepticism is related to …
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Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
… In his ongoing engagement with the philosophy of German Idealism, and with Hegel in particular, Adorno’s philosophical, sociological, and cultural critical writings involve a critical rethinking of the relationship between subject and object, and between individual and society. I make two primary …
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
… of his work against the backdrop of 19th century German idealism. Along with an emphasis on a systematic interpretation of a thinker usually considered to be wholly anti-systematic in aim and orientation, I also aim to show that through developing an ontological interpretation of the work of …
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Hjalmar Schacht and "The Theoretical Quality of English Commerce"
… inspiration. Schacht claimed to be a cultural German as well. During the years between 1939 and 1943, Schacht had many chances to leave Germany. Rather than leave his country he preferred to remain there and take the personal risk of open opposition to Hitler's war plans.</p> <p>Taking …
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… by Catholicism as had been Novalis and the German Romantics, Tolstoj's works were most thoroughly shaped by German Idealism and the radical Protestant sects of the early nineteenth century. The poet's works are invested with a private mythology and a symbolic significance. The writer started …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… theodicy motivates the development of German Idealism from Leibniz to Kant), I argue that these existing theories tend to oversimplify the complexity of seventeenth century thinking about the origin and persistence of evil in the world and in human experience. I attend to the hybridity …
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Negative and Positive Philosophy in the late work of Fichte and Schelling
… of a distinct strand in the development of idealism which has a significant precursor in the neglected and misunderstood later work of J.G. Fichte (1762–1814). I argue that the tendency of both thinkers’ later work is to provide a criticism of the systematic project most commonly identified …
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Transcendental Exchange: Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
… is a transnational one, encompassing Germany, Britain, and America, with its use of alchemy also following this transnational progression. The German idealists developed an epistemology that took from alchemical precepts that in turn informed their spiritual models of genius and the …
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Love itself is understanding : Balthasar, truth, and the saints.
… as his critical response to the metaphysics of German Idealism that elevated thought over love, and, by so doing, lost the transcendental properties of Being: beauty, goodness, and truth. Balthasar constructively responds to this problem by re-appropriating the ancient and medieval spiritual …
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'A Raid on the Inarticulate’: Exploring Authenticity, Ereignis and Dwelling in Martin Heidegger and T.S. Eliot
… and 'situatedness' to a familiarity with German Idealism. Heidegger shared this familiarity, suggesting a reason for the similarity of their thought. Chapter one explores the 'authenticity' developed in Being and Time, as well as associated themes like temporality, the 'they' (Das Man), …
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Der Begriff der Aura und einer Kunst ohne Aura im Werk von Walter Benjamin
… 4uestions the position of the subject in German Idealism, epitomised by Hegel's practical idea. At the same time Benjamin realises that materiality cannot be represented in its totality in the discourse of signification. Thereby the aura can only gain a metaphoric access to representation. …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… Walter Benjamin in critical constellation with German Idealism, specifically G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. I explore how Adorno and Benjamin deconstruct and refashion Idealist notions, while also providing the post-Idealist theoretical armature to read Idealism in speculative directions. …
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Emergent grace: Paul Tillich, existential ontology, and the ethics of acceptance
… roots and the inspiration he drew from German idealism. In the final chapters, the dissertation explores the concept of intersubjectivity and its decisive role in the emergence of values and moral systems in order to illuminate how grace is extended and received between persons. The …
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Hegel's critique of skepticism: concept, judgment, and syllogism
<p>The dissertation investigates Hegel’s account of the nature of concepts, judgments, and syllogisms given his claim to have established a presuppositionless science in the face of Pyrrhonian skepticism. It argues that his account of the topics of traditional logic in the Science of Logic …
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Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics
… are connected by the following thesis: the German idealist aesthetic tradition begins with an attempt to understand the incomprehensibility of certain objects and works its way to respect for them and their freedom, while the feminist tradition cited here begins with the necessity of respect …
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… subject with the world (a theme bequeathed by German Idealism), the unity of the subject with other subjects (within the Russian sobornost’ tradition), the unity of the world with God and, finally, the unity of God with God (Christian theology). Bulgakov’s lifelong project is the pursuit of a …
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