Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism

Dennis Schulting is an independent scholar and the former Assistant Professor of Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the founding editor and manager of the online journal Critique and has published numerous books including The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant (Bloomsbury, 2015).

In this volume Dennis Schulting goes beyond his earlier close studies of Kant's Transcendental Deduction by explaining in detail how Kant's critical conception of self-consciousness plays a central and positive role in the philosophies of Reinhold, Fichte, and Hegel. A distinctive feature of the work is its extensive attention to recent secondary literature on this topic, as well as its nuanced articulation and defense of a systematic position on German Idealism that develops many related themes emphasized by scholars such as Robert Pippin.

• Preface 1. Introduction: Ineliminably Reflexive Human Experience 2. The ‘Self-Knowledge’ of Reason: Kant’s Copernican Hypothesis 3. ‘A representation of my representations’: Apperception and the Leibnizian-Wolffian Background4. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant 5. Reflexivity, Intentionality, and Animal Perception 6. Disciple or Renegade? On Reinhold’s Representationalism, the Principle of Consciousness, and the Thing in Itself 7. Apperception and Representational Content: Fichte, Hegel, and Pippin 8. On the Kinship of Kant’s and Hegel’s Metaphysical Logics 9. Hegel, Transcendental Philosophy, and the Myth of Realism Notes Bibliography Index