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Provides a systematic overview of the topic of self in classical German philosophy, focusing on the period around 1800 and covering Kant, Fichte, Holderlin, Novalis, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Hegel.
Figuring the Self consists of twelve essays which present, discuss, and assess the principal accounts of the self in classical German philosophy, focusing on the period around 1800 and covering Kant, Fichte, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Hegel.
"This collection of speculative, critical, and expository essays succeeds in presenting a representative array of the various philosophical approaches to the self among German idealists. The survey makes clear the density and diversity of the reflection on the self during this period. In addition, some essays identify the significance of a particular approach for contemporary debates, while others elucidate how specific philosophers of a later generation take their bearings from the insights of German idealists." — Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Catholic University of America
"The contributors are correct in their view that this takes up a subject that has been overlooked in studies of German Idealism, that is, there are discussions of the self in Hegel, but not traced out in the whole movement of German Idealism. The self is a topic in philosophy that needs more attention. These are original treatments on the subject and the book is itself insightful in bringing together essays on all of the major figures in this period of philosophy." — Donald Phillip Verene, Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Emory University
"The range of interests represented in this book make it exemplary. It is hard to imagine a philosopher who would not find something of interest here, because the contributors, while reflecting scholarly concerns, are not inhibited by them from addressing topics of contemporary relevance." — Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis
Introduction
David E. Klemm and Günter Zöller
Part 1
Self and Subject
1. Subjectivity and Individuality: Survey of a Problem
Manfred Frank
2. Self as Matter and Form: Some Reflections on Kant's View of the Soul
Richard E. Aquila
3. Kant and the Self: A Retrospective
Karl Ameriks
4. An Eye for an I: Fichte's Transcendental Experiment
Günter Zöller
Part 2
Self and the Absolute
5. Self-Consciousness and Speculative Thinking
Dieter Henrich
6. Romantic Conceptions of the Self in Hölderlin and Novalis
Jane E. Kneller
7. Realizing Nature in the Self: Schelling on Art and Intellectual Intuition in the System of Transcendental Idealism
Richard L. Velkley
8. Schleiermacher on the Self: Immediate Self-Consciousness as Feeling and as Thinking
David E. Klemm
Part 3
Self and Others
9. Absolute Subject and Absolute Subjectivity in Hegel
Walter Jaeschke
10. Appropriating Selfhood: Schleiermacher and Hegel on Subjectivity as Mediated Activity
Jeffrey L. Hoover
11. "The Root of Humanity": Hegel on Communication and Language
John Durham Peters
12. Heidegger and Wittgenstein on the Subject of Kantian Philosophy
David G. Stern
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index