The Impact of Idealism: Volume 2, Historical, Social and Political Thought

The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

John Walker, Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107039834
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107497054
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This second volume explores German Idealism's impact on the historical, social and political thought of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay focuses on an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing out its influence on the intervening period and its importance for contemporary discussions. New light is shed on key developments of Idealist thought, such as Marxism, Critical Theory and feminism, and previously unexamined areas of Idealism's influence are discussed for the first time. This unique, interdisciplinary collection traces the impact of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte and others in Britain, Europe, North America and beyond. Its insights represent vital contributions to their respective fields, as well as to our understanding of German Idealism itself.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Idealism in historical, social and political thought
• 1 From transcendental idealism to political realism
• 2 The public of the intellectuals - from Kant to Lyotard
• 3 Idealism and the idea of a constitution
• 4 German Idealism and Marx
• 5 Ethos, nature and education in Johann Erich von Berger and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
• 6 The concept and philosophy of culture in Neo-Kantianism
• 7 After materialism - reflections of Idealism in Lebensphilosophie: Dilthey, Bergson and Simmel
• 8 ‘Rationalisation’, ‘reification’, ‘instrumental reason’
• 9 Freedom within nature: Adorno on the idea of reason’s autonomy
• 10 German neo-Hegelianism and a plea for another Hegel
• 11 Idealism and the fascist corporative state
• 12 Love and recognition in Fichte and the alternative position of de Beauvoir
• 13 Hegel’s concept of recognition and its reception in the humanist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir
• 14 Giving an account of oneself amongst others: Hegel, Judith Butler and social ontology
• 15 Idealism in the German tradition of meta-history
• Bibliography
• Index