Life, Organisms, and Human Nature New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy
This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective. Its 19 chapters move from the peculiarities of organic life to the peculiarities of the distinctly human life form and discuss t...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
Series: | Studies in German Idealism
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy
- I. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIC LIFE BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES
- 1. Organisms and Natural Ends in Kant’s Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 2. Kant and Biological Theory
- 3. Rethinking Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature Through a Process Account of Emergence
- 4. Inadmissible Application: Some Notes on Causality and Life in Hegel
- 5. Concepts with Teeth and Claws. On Species, Essences and Purposes in Hegel’s Organic Physics
- 6. Hegel’s Theory of Space-Time (No, not that space-time)
- II. UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN LIFE-FORM BETWEEN NATURE, SPIRIT, AND SOCIETY
- 7. ‘All is Act.’ Fichte’s Idealism as Immortalism
- 8. ‘True life is only in Death.’ On Rejecting Life and Nature in Romanticism (Fichte, Novalis, Schlegel)
- 9. Schelling on the Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature. The roleof the Naturphilosophie in the Freiheitsschrift
- 10. The State as Second Nature in Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism
- 11. The Psychical Relation
- 12. The Physical Body and Its Role in Hegel’s Mature Ethical Theory
- 13. Second Nature and Self-Determination in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- 14. Gattungswesen and Universality: Feuerbach, Marx and German idealism
- III. NATURALISM AND THE BOUNDS OF NATURE
- 15. The Third Antinomy in the Age of Naturalism
- 16. Post-Bonnetian Naturalism
- 17. Romantic Empiricism in the Anthropocene: Unlocking A. v. Humboldt’s and F. W. J. Schelling’s Potential for the Environmental Humanities
- 18. Nature’s System Within the System: Hegel’s Idealist Philosophy of Nature
- 19. Scientism as Ideology; Speculative Naturalism as Qualified Decoloniality