Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and their Others

Contemporary Legacies of German Idealism

Elias Kifon Bongmba, Robert Manzinger, Elias Kifon Bongmba, Robert Manzinger

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350340091
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350340114
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Kantian and Hegelian conceptions of freedom guide this collection of essays that engage with the linguistic turn in continental philosophy to explore contemporary interpretations of freedom. Using a broad approach to the tradition of German Idealism, this volume considers its modern recasting of philosophy as a rigorous thinking practice with profound implications for individual and communal praxis and wellbeing.

Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and its Others further cultivates and demonstrates the freedom to think and engage philosophy in a critical dialogue with other fields of inquiry. This method is exemplified in the philosophy and teaching of Professor Jere P. Surber, whom this book honors by using his interdisciplinary method as a springboard for new understandings of freedom in contemporary life.

Expert scholars working in the philosophy of language, continental philosophy of religion, ancient philosophy, critical theory, and ethics engage seminal thinkers on freedom including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Debord to provide a diverse range of perspectives on freedom. In so doing, they address the complex legacy of philosophical freedom across subjects from contemporary media and political patrimonial culture to literary imagination and the politics of Nelson Mandela.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Philosophy and Their Others
• Hegel: From Reason to Freedom
• Hegel’s Speculative Sentence: Freedom from Presuppositions
• Hegel’s Speculative Sentence: An Onto-Grammatical Reading of “Lordship and Bondage”
• Remembering the Future: Freedom from Slavery
• Freedom and the Linguistic Turn in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
• Surber and Kripke on a Posteriori Necessity
• Freedom at Risk: Guy Debord, Donald Trump, and the State of the Spectacle
• The Cultural Dimension of Special News Programs: Freedom and Aesthetics as a Means of Coping with Extreme Events
• The Freedom of Kant’s Language of the Sublime in Contemporary Novels and its Metacritique: On Don Delillo’s “White Noise” and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “The End”
• “Intersections: Memory and the Politics of Patrimony in Daniel Buren’s Deux Plateaux”
• Humor as a Philosophical-Religious Boundary in Soren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Embodied by the Hospital Chaplain as a Wise Fool
• Mandela’s Legal and Spiritual Politics
• Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint