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The ‘death’ of German Idealism has been decried innumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-century critique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, or analytic philosophy. Yet in the face of two hundred years of sustained, extremely rigorous attempts to leave behind its legacy, German Idealism has resisted its philosophical death sentence. For this exact reason it is timely to ask: What remains of German Idealism? In what ways does its fundamental concepts and texts still speak to us? Drawing together new and established voices from scholars in Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, this volume offers a fresh look at this time-honoured tradition. It uses a myriad of recently developed conceptual tools to present new and challenging theories of its now canonical figures.

Philosophy. --- Epistemology. --- Logic. --- Metaphysics. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Methodology --- Genetic epistemology. --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of

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In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of breakdown as the ontogenetic basis of subjectivity. Drawing upon resources found in Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-Kantian philosophy, Carew thus develops a new critical metaphysics—a metaphysics which is a variation upon the late German Idealist theme of balancing system and freedom, realism and idealism, in a single, self-reflexive theoretical construct—that challenges our understanding of nature, culture, and the ultimate structure of reality.

Idealism, German. --- Metaphysics. --- Zizek, Slavoj. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- German idealism --- Žižek, Slavoj --- subjectivity --- realism --- phenomenal reality --- slavoj žižek --- german idealism --- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --- Immanuel Kant --- Jacques Lacan --- Metaphysics --- Psychoanalysis