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Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant

  • Hardback
  • 232 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.8 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it virtually haunts contemporary philosophy from epistemology to ethical theory. Yet if this book is right, the full import of Hegel's critique of Kant has not been understood. Working from Hegel's mature texts (after 1807) and reading them in light of an overall interpretation of Hegel's project as a linguistic, "definitional" system, the book offers major reinterpretations of Hegel's views: The Kantian thing-in-itself is not denied but relocated as a temporal aspect of our experience. Hegel's linguistic idealism is understood in terms of his realistic view of sensation. Instead of claiming that Kant's categorical imperative is too empty to provide concrete moral guidance, Hegel praises its emptiness as the foundation for a diverse society.

  • Title

    Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant

  • Author

    John McCumber

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    October 2013

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    232

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804785457

  • ISBN-10

    0804785457

  • Eden Code

    4583350