German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge:

The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. The book offers a fresh and challenging analysis.

The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. The book offers a fresh and challenging analysis.

1. Epistemology or Metaphysics? The Kantian Background. 1.1 Scientific Metaphysics? 1.2. Transcendentalism versus Realism? 1.3. The Ontological Facet: the Transcendental Self and the Thing-in-itself.  1.4. From the Ontological to the Logical. Understanding, Reason and Totality. 1.5. The Logical Facet: Kant’s Relation to Formal Logic and the Problem of Contradiction.- 2. From Epistemology to Metaphysics: Fichte and Schelling. 2.1. Fichte: The Thing-in-itself and the Dialectical Leap. 2.2. Schelling: Epistemology and the Resurrection of Metaphysics.- 3. From Metaphysics to Epistemology I: From the Phenomenology to the Logic or Hegel’s Claim for Absolute Knowing and its Meaning. 3.1. Idealism, Reason and Contradiction in the Early Hegel. 3.2. Hegel’ Phenomenology. The Coming to be of the Self and the Question of Intersubjectivity. 3.3. The Transition to Self-Consciousness and Idealism.- 4. From Metaphysics to Epistemology II: Logic and Reality. 4.1. The Idea of an Epistemological Reading of the Science of Logic. 4.2. Toward an Epistemological Totality. Conclusion. Bibliography.