TY - BOOK ID - 78074484 TI - Understanding German idealism PY - 2007 SN - 1317493303 1317493311 1315711893 1282943413 9786612943416 1844653935 9781315711898 9781317493297 9781317493303 9781844650958 9781844650965 PB - Durham : Acumen Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Idealism, German. KW - German idealism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074484 AB - Understanding German Idealism provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged with the publication of Kant’s monumental Critique of Pure Reason and ended fifty years later with Hegel’s death. The thinkers of this period and the themes they developed revolutionized almost every area of philosophy and had an impact that continues to be felt across the humanities and social sciences today. Notoriously complex, the central texts of German Idealism have confounded the most capable and patient interpreters for more than 200 years. Understanding German Idealism aims to convey the significance of this philosophical movement while avoiding its obscurity. Readers are given a clear understanding of the problems that motivated Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel and the solutions that they proposed. Dudley outlines the main ideas of transcendental idealism and explores how the later German Idealists attempted to carry out the Kantian project more rigorously than Kant himself, striving to develop a fully self-critical and rational philosophy, in order to determine the meaning and sustain the possibility of a free and rational modern life. ER -