Birgit Sandkaulen

The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (eBook, PDF)

On the Contradiction between System and Freedom
Übersetzer: Erlin, Matt

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more than a century, misrepresentations of Jacobi's thought have stood in the way of a proper appreciation of his insights. In her study of this long-neglected German philosopher, internationally-renowned Jacobi expert Birgit Sandkaulen interprets his philosophical writings in their intellectual context. Originally published in German and translated into English for the first time, this is a major contribution to reading the life, work, and legacy of Jacobi. The biographical chapter on Jacobi's life as a public intellectual was written specifically for this English edition.

Offering new perspectives on Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, Sandkaulen focuses on Jacobi's specific conception of practical realism. This conception, the source of Jacobi's famous defense of faith and human freedom, matches his critique of the German Idealists: the post-Kantian systems of German Idealism were bound to fail. Sandkaulen shows us that long before 20th-century philosophers took up this line of thought, indeed at the very origin of the epoch-making developments of classical German philosophy, Jacobi articulated a practical, ethical, personal realism that is as philosophically appealing and relevant today as it was in its time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350235724
• Artikelnr.: 67232820

Autorenporträt

Birgit Sandkaulen is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Research Center for Classical German Philosophy / Hegel-Archive at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her research focuses especially on Hegel and Jacobi. She is the editor of Jacobi's Correspondence and co-editor of a new "Digital Jacobi Lexicon" at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. She has published several books on Jacobi, including Grund und Ursache. Die Vernunftkritik Jacobis (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Part I. Leitmotifs 1.
Life and Work 2. Jacobi's "Spinoza and Antispinoza" 3. Groundless Belief: A
Philosophical Provocation 4. Does Spirit have Ésprit? On the Figures of
Soul, Spirit, and Reason in Jacobi's Philosophy 5. Between Spinoza and
Kant: Jacobi on Freedom and Persons 6. That, What, or Who? Jacobi and the
Discourse on Persons 7. Brother Henriette? Deconstructions of Friendship in
Derrida and Jacobi 8. "I am and there are things outside me". Overcoming
the "Consciousness-Paradigm" with Jacobi's Realism 9. The "Tiresome Thing
in Itself." Kant - Jacobi - Fichte Part II. Critical Relations 10. I-hood
and Person: The Fichtean Aporia and the Debate with Jacobi 11. Fichte's
Vocation of Man - A Convincing Response to Jacobi? 12. This Individual and
No Other? On the Individuality of the Person in Schelling's Freedom Essay
13. System and Temporality. Jacobi Contra Hegel and Schelling 14. Third
Position of Thought Towards Objectivity: Immediate Knowing 15. Metaphysics
or Logic? The Importance of Spinoza in Hegel's Science of Logic
Bibliography Proof of first publication Index