Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism (Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy)

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nCONTENTS\nNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS\nFOREWORD GEORGE DI GIOVANNI (Professor Emeritus, McGill University)\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nABBREVIATIONS\nIntroduction KATERINA MIHAYLOVA and ANNA EZEKIEL\n	1 ENLIGHTENMENT DEBATES ON HOPE\n	2 HOPE IN THE WORK OF KANT\n	3 THE KANTIAN LEGACY: HOPE, REASON, AND PROGRESS\n	4 HOPE AFTER KANT: CONTRIBUTIONS OF THIS VOLUME\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER ONE Between Need and Permission The Role of Hope in Kant’s Critical Foundation of Moral Faith1\n	1 FAITH IN PLACE OF KNOWLEDGE?\n	2 FOR WHAT IT MUST BE PERMITTED TO HOPE\n	3 MORAL FAITH\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER TWO Hopeful Pessimism The Kantian Mind at the End of All Things1\n	1 KANT’S THIRD QUESTION\n	2 CLASSICAL/CHRISTIAN CONFLATIONS OF (WHAT WE WOULD CALL) HOPE AND EXPECTATION\n	3 KANT ON HOPE AND EXPECTATION\n	4 THE MORAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ARGUMENT AGAINST DESPAIR\n	5 SUSTAINING HOPE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE\n	6 EXPECTATION IN THE ESCHATON\n	7 CONCLUSION: HOMO RELIGIOSUS AND HOMO SPERANS\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER THREE Circulus Volitionis The Hope for Divine Aid in Kant’s Religion\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 RELIGIOUS HOPE IN PART ONE OF KANT’S RELIGION\n	3 RELIGIOUS HOPE IN PART THREE OF KANT’S RELIGION\n	4 RELIGIOUS HOPE AND ACTS OF PIETY\n	5 CONCLUSION\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER FOUR Kant, Beck, and the Highest Good\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 ANTI-METAPHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF KANT’S HIGHEST GOOD\n	3 J. S. BECK AND THE METAPHYSICAL OR “THEOLOGICAL” INTERPRETATION OF THE HIGHEST GOOD\n	4 HOPE AND FEAR\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER FIVE Between Faith and Reason Is J. H. Tieftrunk’s Concept of Hope a Postulate?\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 CONDITIONS OF KANT’S TRANSCENDENTAL THEOLOGY\n	3 TIEFTRUNK’S JUSTIFICATION OF POSTULATED HOPE AND ITS DERIVATIVE POSTULATES\n	4 TIEFTRUNK’S CONCEPT OF HOPE AND ITS POSITION IN RELATION TO KANT’S DOCTRINE OF RELIGION\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER SIX Fichte on Optimism and Pessimism1\n	1 FICHTE’S STANCE ON THE ISSUES\n	2 THE CHARACTER OF HOPE\n	3 THE EDIFYING POWER OF THE MORAL LAW\n	4 CONCLUSION: THE HOPEFUL MORAL AGENT\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER SEVEN The Autonomy of the Heart Forberg on Action Without Belief\n	1 BEYOND THE ATHEISM CONTROVERSY\n	2 KANT’S DOCTRINES OF PRACTICAL BELIEF AND THE HIGHEST GOOD\n	3 FICHTE’S PARADOX\n	4 FORBERG’S ARGUMENT IN “DEVELOPMENT”\n	5 KANT AND FICHTE ON THE DIVIDED SELF\n	6 FORBERG’S LONELY HEART\n	7 CONCLUDING REVIEW\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER EIGHT Mind Subverted to Madness The Psychological Force of Hope as Affect in Kant and J. C. Hoffbauer\n	1 KANT ON HOPE AS AFFECT\n	2 HOFFBAUER ON HOPE AND THE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE OUR OWN ENDS\n	3 CONCLUSION\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER NINE “What May I Hope?” Schleiermacher’s Answer to Kant’s Third Question\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 KANT ON RESPECT AND HOPE\n	3 FEELING OF RELIGION\n	4 CONCLUSION\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER TEN C. A. Eschenmayer History as the Realm of Freedom and Moral Development\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 SOME SIGNIFICANT TRAITS OF ESCHENMAYER’S PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTION\n	3 HISTORY AS A PART OF THE SYSTEM\n	4 ESCHENMAYER’S CONCEPT OF FREEDOM AND ITS RELATION TO HISTORY\n	5 THE TRANSCENDENTAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE HISTORICAL PROCESS\n	6 THE WORLD PLAN\n	7 FREEDOM AND THE PLAN OF HISTORY: THE THEORY OF COMPENSATION\n	8 THE FUNCTION OF ETHICS\n	9 THE VIEW OF THE FUTURE\n	10 THE CONTROVERSY WITH HEGEL\n	11 THE PLACE OF HOPE IN ESCHENMAYER’S PHILOSOPHY\n	12 CONCLUSION\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER ELEVEN Undirected Directionality Jakob Friedrich Fries on Hope, Faith, and Comprehensive Feelings1\n	1 UNDIRECTED DIRECTIONALITY: HOPE AND OPEN FUTURES\n	2 JAKOB FRIEDRICH FRIES: A RELIGION-BASED ANTHROPOLOGY OF HOPE\n	3 REALISTIC VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: HOPE AND THE KNOWABILITY OF THE FUTURE IN JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER\n	4 LIVING IN HOPE: FRIES’ HOLIST EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE FUTURE\n	5 FEELINGS AND META-FEELINGS: PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF HOPE IN FRIES’ WORKS\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER TWELVE Humboldt, Bildung, Language, and Hope1\n	INTRODUCTION\n	1 HUMBOLDT AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM\n	2 HOPE\n	3 BILDUNG\n	4 FREEDOM, DIVERSITY, AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE\n	5 PRACTICAL REFORMS\n	6 LANGUAGE, DIVERSITY AND HOPE\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER THIRTEEN In the Hope of a Philosopher of Nature\n	1 THE MESSIANIC STRUCTURE OF PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE\n	2 HOW DOES A PART OF NATURE REALIZE IT’S A PART OF NATURE?\n	3 HOW TO BECOME A PHILOSOPHER OF NATURE\n	4 THE PHILOSOPHER’S FREEDOM\n	5 THE SENTIMENTAL PHILOSOPHER12\n	6 CONCLUSIONS: WHAT WILL PHILOSOPHY BECOME?\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER FOURTEEN Knowledge, Faith, and Ambiguity Hope in the Work of Novalis and Karoline von Günderrode\n	1 HOPE FOR UNION WITH LOVED ONES AFTER DEATH\n	2 EPISTEMOLOGICAL HOPE\n	3 MORAL HOPE\n	4 ONTOLOGICAL HOPE\n	5 POLITICAL HOPE\n	CONCLUDING REMARKS\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER FIFTEEN Georg Friedrich Creuzer and the Claims of the Symbolic\n	1 CREUZER’S BACKGROUND\n	2 CREUZER’S ACCOUNT OF THE SYMBOLIC\n	3 THE RECOVERY OF ANCIENT WISDOM, THE TASK OF HISTORY AND THE EMERGENCE OF HOPE\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER SIXTEEN “When My Heart Says So . . .” Hope as Delusion in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 A WORLD AS WILL IS HOPELESS\n	3 THE HEART ABOVE ALL: THE INFLUENCE OF THE WILL OVER THE INTELLECT\n	4 THE AFFECT OF CONSOLATION\n	5 THE ONLY POSSIBLE HOPE: THE END OF HOPE AS NOTHINGNESS\n	6 CONCLUSION: THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD AS A PRACTICAL HOPE\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nCHAPTER SEVENTEEN Hope and Faith Kierkegaard’s Call for the Self to Develop its Relationship to Itself\n	1 INTRODUCTION\n	2 THE APPEAL TO THE SELF IN KIERKEGAARD’S STYLE OF WRITING\n	3 THE SELF AS A RELATION THAT RELATES ITSELF TO ITSELF AND TO TRANSCENDENCE\n	4 HOPE AND THE FICTIONALIZED TEMPORAL WORLD\n	5 HOPE FOR THIS LIFE\n	6 THE DOUBLE MOVEMENT OF FAITH, ETERNAL HOPE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THE GOOD\n	7 HOPE AS THE SUBLIME IN THE PEDESTRIAN\n	7 CONCLUSION\n	NOTES\n	REFERENCES\nINDEX OF NAMES\nINDEX OF SUBJECTS