The fate of reason : German philosophy from Kant to Fichte

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Contents

Introduction

1. Kant, Hamann, and the Rise of the Sturm und Drang

Hamann's Historical and Philosophical Significance

The London Conversion and Its Philosophical Consequences

The Summer of 1759: The Stirrings of the Sturm und Drang

The Sokratische Denkwurdigkeiten

Kant, Hamann, and the Optimism Controversy

The Kinderphysik Fiasco

Aesthetica in nuce and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

The ""Metakritik"": Genesis, Contents, and Consequences

2. Jacobi and the Pantheism Controversy The Historical Significance of the Pantheism Controversy

The Rise of Spinozism in Germany, 1680-1786

The Dispute over Lessing's Spinozism

The Philosophical Significance of the Controversy

Jacobi's First Critique of Reason

Jacobi's Second Critique of Reason

Jacobi's Defense of Faith

3. Mendelssohn and the Pantheism Controversy

Mendelssohn's Place in the History of Philosophy

In Defense of Reason

Mendelssohn's Nightmare, or, the Method of Orientation

The Critique of Spinozism and Purified Pantheism

Mendelssohn's Covert Critique of Kant 4. Kant, Jacobi, and Wizenmann in Battle

Thomas Wizenmann's Resultate

Kant's Contribution to the Pantheism Controversy

Wizenmann's Reply to Kant

Jacobi's Attack on Kant

5. Herder's Philosophy of Mind

Herder and the Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind

Herder on the Origin of Language

Hamann and Herder's Debate over the Origin of Language

Herder's Genetic Method

The Principles of Herder's Vitalism

Kant's Quarrel with Herder

The Kant-Herder Controversy and the Origins of the Third Kritik

Herder and the Pantheism Controversy

6. The Attack of the Lockeans Popularphilosophie: A Sketch of a Movement

Highlights of the Lockean Campaign against Kant

The Garve Affair

Two Early Critics: C.G. Selle and D. Tiedemann

The Lockean Ringleader, J.G. Feder

Feder's Circle: A.G. Tittel and A. Weishaupt

The Good Pastor Pistorius

7. The Revenge of the Wolffians

Leitmotivs of the Wolffian Campaign

Revolution versus Reaction

The Wolffian Defense of Metaphysics

The Thorn in Kant's Side, J.A. Ulrich

The Scrooge of Tiibingen, J.F. Flatt

Platner's Meta-Critical Skepticism

The Eberhard Controversy The Consequences of the Wolffian Campaign

8. Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie

Reinhold's Historical Significance

Reinhold's Early Quarrel with Kant

Reinhold's Briefe and Conversion to the Critical Philosophy

The Path toward the Elementarphilosophie

Reinhold's Critique of Kant and the Aims of the Elementarphilosophie

Reinhold's Methodology

Reinhold's Phenomenological Project

Reinhold's Proposition of Consciousness and the New Theory of Representation

The Crisis of the Elementarphilosophie

9. Schulze's Skepticism

Schulze's Historical Significance and Influence