The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology (Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism)

Series Editor’s Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	German Idealism and the Centrality of Consciousness
	Phenomenology’s Focus on Lived Experience
	The Structure of the Book
	Conclusion
Part I Subjectivity
2 Husserl’s Idealism Revisited
	Intentionality as Starting Point
	Husserl’s Transcendental-Phenomenological Idealism (1908–1938)
	The Starting Point: Intentionality and the Ontological Priority of Subjectivity
	The Sense of the World—Horizon-Intentionality
	Husserl’s Engagement with Kant and Transcendental Idealism
	Consciousness as an Original Region of Being
	The Ontology of the Natural Attitude: Naïve Realism and Naturalism
	The Centrality of the Epochē to the Transcendental Outlook
	The Enigma of Subjectivity as Both “in the World” and “for the World”
	Transcendental Intersubjectivity (Transzendentale Intersubjektivität) as Monadology
	Conclusion
3 Transcendental Philosophy, Psychology, and Anthropology: Kant and Husserl on the “Inner Man” and the Human Being
	The Faith of Psychology and the Role of Internal Experience
	Kant, the Interior, and the Exterior
	The Inconsistency of Interiority: A Critical Objection to Husserlian Idealism
	From Psychology to Anthropology: The “Inner” and the “Outer Man”
	Husserl and the Hesitating Project of a Transcendental Anthropology
	Conclusion
4 Fichte and Husserl: Rigorous Science and the Renewal of Humankind
	Acting to Act
	Renewal and Life of Method
	Fichte: Philosophy as Fact-Foundation (Tatbegründung)
	Fichte’s Phenomenology
	Phenomenology and the Theory of the I
5 Bodies, Authenticity, and Marcelian Problematicity
	Marcel’s Early Relationship with German Idealism
	The Self as Body
	The Self as Subject
	Conclusion
6 Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project
	The Kantian Background of Sartre’s Existentialism
	Sartre as Constructivist Existentialist
	Sartre’s Account of Freedom and Its Kantian Limitations
	Sartre’s Moral Theory as a Radicalization of Kantian Ethics
	Conclusion
Part II Intersubjectivity and the Other
7 Kant and the Scandal of Intersubjectivity: Alfred Schutz’s Anthropology of Transcendence
	The “Scandal” of Intersubjectivity
	Anthropology on a Phenomenological Basis
	Transcendence
	Meaning
	Types
	Back to the “Things in Themselves”
	World, Soul, God
	Conclusions
8 Moving Beyond Hegel: The Paradox of Immanent Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy
	Hegel on the Freedom of the Negative
		Beauvoir’s Critique of Hegelian Freedom: Situation and Oppression
		Moving Beyond Hegel: The Paradox of Immanent Freedom
	Conclusion
9 Fanon and Hegel: The Dialectic, the Phenomenology of Race, and Decolonization
	Hegelian Dialectic: Universal Consciousness, Work, and the Burden of Slavery
	Hegel, the Racialized State, and World History
	Fanon, Hegel, and the Negro
	Fanon: The Inoperative Dialectic and the Struggle for Recognition
	Conclusion
Part III Ethics and Aesthetics
10 Guidance for Mortals: Heidegger on Norms
	Crowell on Heidegger on Norms
	Critical Remarks
	Beyond Self-Legislation
	Heidegger on Norms for Mortals
	Indefiniteness and Questionability
	Acting in Light of Mortal Norms
	Conclusion
11 Husserl’s Idealism in the Kaizo Articles and Its Relation to Contemporary Moral Perfectionism
	Epistemological Idealism
	The Primacy of Practical Reason: A Kantian-Fichtean Heritage in Husserl
	Ethical Idealism
	Being a Philosopher in a Situation
	Moral Perfectionism
	Conclusion
12 The Blindness of Kantian Idealism Regarding Non-human Animals and Its Overcoming by Husserlian Phenomenology
	The Traditional Image of the “Subject”
	The Blindness of Kantian Idealism as Seen from the Phenomenological Perspective
	Husserl’s Novel Image of the (Animal) Transcendental Subject, and His New Attitude Regarding Non-human Animals
	Animal Selfhood (Ichlichkeit), Bodily Ruling, and Being a Subject of Will
	Lived Space and the Capacity to Spatialize
	Lived Time and the Capacity to Temporalize
	Conclusions
13 Morality and Animality: Kant, Levinas, and Ethics as Transcendence
	Kant: The Moral Law as Transcendence of Animality
	Levinas: The Ethical as Transcendence of the Conatus
	Levinas: The Anarchy of the Ethical
	A Darwinian Complication
	Conclusion
14 Aesthetic Disinterestedness and the Critique of Sentimentalism
	Inner and Outer Concentration and the Dilettantism of the Aesthetic Experience
	Aesthetic Value, Aesthetic Experience, and Aesthetic Attitude
	Artistic Sensibility, Blind and Seeing Pleasures, and Two Types of Interest
	Concluding Remarks
Part IV Time, Memory, and History
15 Redeeming German Idealism: Schelling and Rosenzweig
	I
	II
	Conclusion: Redeeming Idealism
16 Heidegger on Hegel on Time
	Heidegger on Hegel (BT §82)
	Hegel on Space and Time (EPN §§254–259)
	The Keyword Is the Method
	Conclusion
17 Sedimentation, Memory, and Self in Hegel and Merleau-Ponty
	The Interiority with Escape: Merleau-Ponty’s Dialectic of Sense
	Absolute Knowledge as Sedimentation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
	Rethinking Ethical Memory with Hegel and Merleau-Ponty
18 Max Scheler’s Idea of History: A Juxtaposition of Phenomenology and Idealism
	The Time of History: Scheler’s Early Approach to History
	The Age of History: Scheler on the Structure of History
	The End (or Beginning) of History: Scheler on the Meaning of Human History
Part V Ontology and Epistemology
19 The Presence of Kant in Stein
	Phenomenology as Extending and Purifying Kant’s Understanding of the a Priori: Unknowingly Recovering Du Châtelet
	Causality and Idealism as a Metaphysical Choice
	Distance to Kant’s Criticism of Religion
	Conclusion
20 Heidegger on Fichte’s Three Principles
	Heidegger on the First Principle
	Heidegger on the Second Principle
	Heidegger on the Third Principle
21 Hegel’s Phenomenological Method and the Later Movement of Phenomenology
	The Subject Matter and Scope of Phenomenology
	Hegel’s Description of His Method
	Hegel’s Use of Phenomenology in the Encyclopedia
	Husserl’s Critical Assessment of Hegel
	The More Positive Assessment of Hegel in French Phenomenology
	Comparison with the Later Tradition of Phenomenology
22 On the Mutations of the Concept: Phenomenology, Conceptual Change, and the Persistence of Hegel in Merleau-Ponty’s Thought
	Beginnings
	Existentialist Hegel
	The “Flesh of History”: On the Mutations of the Concept
Part VI Hermeneutics
23 The Thread of Imagination in Heidegger’s Retrieval of Kant: The Play of a Double Hermeneutic
	The Question of Knowledge: Why Imagination?
	Revisiting the Problem of Ethics
	Language and the Singularity of Art
	Conclusion
24 Gadamer, German Idealism, and the Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology
	Gadamer on the Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology
	Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Legacy of German Idealism
	History
	Language
25 Too Many Hegels? Ricoeur’s Relation to German Idealism Reconsidered
	Hegel Today?
	A Triad of Hegels
	In Search of a Higher Unity
26 Conclusion
	The Historical Context of German Idealism
	The Historical Context of Classical Phenomenology
	The Future of These Legacies
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Index