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This book explores the transformation of philosophical reason in German Idealism, specifically focusing on comparative and evolutionary studies of the central authors of that period. It presents original interpretations of the development of Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling’s thoughts, comparing and contrasting them also with more recent conceptions of reason.
The book follows the post-Kantian and idealist philosophical systems from Kant’s rehabilitation of dialectics through to Schelling’s philosophy of mythology, highlighting the crucial steps that irreversibly transformed philosophical reason. We examine the role of the principle of sufficient reason in the philosophical development of the period, Kant’s antinomy of reason, and the problem of skepticism in post-Kantian philosophy as foundational concepts for the study of the philosophical transformations of reason in German Idealism.
We present Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre as an image theory, Hegel’s transformation of metaphysics into logic, Hegel’s philosophy of history, and Schelling’s concept of the irrational ground of consciousness. The concluding chapters show how the dialectical concepts of German Idealism underpin the critical inversion of values and negativity present in some twentieth-century conceptions of reason.