Introduction 1. Kantian Dualism 2. Post-Kantian Monism 3. Post-Kantian Skepticism 4. Post-Kantian Transcendental Arguments 5. the Fact of Reason and the Standpoint of German Idealism 6. Intuition, Negation, and the Possibility of Evil Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index
"A notable feature in recent Anglo-American professional philosophy is the mounting return of attention to the post-Kantian development of German Idealism-- that development, or outburst, of philosophical activity that became largely off limits in the analytical pedagogy adopted in virtually all of the dominant English-speaking departments of philosophy over most of the twentieth century. The unfailing historical sophistication and the persistent illumination of philosophical questioning that characterize Paul Franks's All or Nothing, as well as its narrative scope, make it an early culmination of this revived attention. Franks's presentation demonstrates that a massively influential era and register of Western philosophical heritage need no longer remain strange to those who have not yet found their way to it-- or, to put the matter positively, and more accurately, that this register may now become pertinently strange, in a way such that it itself, as Franks insists, recognizes its own unavoidable strangeness. It is part of the pedagogical generosity of his book that Franks includes references and quotations marking various moments from that tradition which help, in their differences as well as their similarities, in articulating the progress of the tradition he has remarkably set in motion. -- Stanley Cavell, Harvard University What Franks has managed to do is to drive a single, unified line of argument through the historical material without distortion or suppression, and in a way which on the contrary throws so much light on the figures and themes dealt with that his central contentions emerge with a very high degree of historical corroboration. He has provided a cogent demonstration that the fundamental thrust of German idealism is not philosophically arbitrary and not of merely antiquarian interest, but has a strong, legitimate claim on our contemporary philosophical interest. -- Sebastian Gardner, University College London The subjects that Franks has taken on are both timely and enormous. He shows what the problems were in Kantian philosophy that ultimately drove the development of what has come to be known as German Idealism, and he shows what motivated those who moved away from Kant. Even more ambitiously, he shows the inherent plausibility of those moves in terms of their own inner dynamics and logic. This is no easy task, and Franks has pulled it off superbly. -- Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University
Paul W. Franks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and the University of Notre Dame.
A notable feature in recent Anglo-American professional philosophy
is the mounting return of attention to the post-Kantian development
of German Idealism-that development, or outburst, of philosophical
activity that became largely off limits in the analytical pedagogy
adopted in virtually all of the dominant English-speaking
departments of philosophy over most of the twentieth century. The
unfailing historical sophistication and the persistent illumination
of philosophical questioning that characterize Paul Franks's All
or Nothing, as well as its narrative scope, make it an early
culmination of this revived attention. Franks's presentation
demonstrates that a massively influential era and register of
Western philosophical heritage need no longer remain strange to
those who have not yet found their way to it-or, to put the matter
positively, and more accurately, that this register may now become
pertinently strange, in a way such that it itself, as Franks
insists, recognizes its own unavoidable strangeness. It is part of
the pedagogical generosity of his book that Franks includes
references and quotations marking various moments from that
tradition which help, in their differences as well as their
similarities, in articulating the progress of the tradition he has
remarkably set in motion. -- Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
What Franks has managed to do is to drive a single, unified line of
argument through the historical material without distortion or
suppression, and in a way which on the contrary throws so much
light on the figures and themes dealt with that his central
contentions emerge with a very high degree of historical
corroboration. He has provided a cogent demonstration that the
fundamental thrust of German idealism is not philosophically
arbitrary and not of merely antiquarian interest, but has a strong,
legitimate claim on our contemporary philosophical interest. --
Sebastian Gardner, University College London
The subjects that Franks has taken on are both timely and enormous.
He shows what the problems were in Kantian philosophy that
ultimately drove the development of what has come to be known as
German Idealism, and he shows what motivated those who moved away
from Kant. Even more ambitiously, he shows the inherent
plausibility of those moves in terms of their own inner dynamics
and logic. This is no easy task, and Franks has pulled it off
superbly. -- Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University
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