Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy

Manja Kisner is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wuppertal. She completed her PhD and postdoc studies at the University of Munich. She has written articles and book chapters on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer. Her books include Der Wille und das Ding an sich (2016) and The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy (with J. Noller, 2020).Jörg Noller is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Munich. He is the author of a number of books, editions and articles on freedom from a historical and systematic perspective, including Die Bestimmung des Willens (2016) and Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will (with J. Walsh, 2021). His research interests include metaphysics, freedom, personhood, and German Idealism.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Theory of Drive: The Dual Legacy of Leibniz’s Theory of Appetition.- Chapter 3: Between Reimarus and Kant: Blumenbach’s Concept of Trieb.- Chapter 4: Stoic dispositional innatism and Herder’s concept of force.- Chapter 5: The economy of the Bildungstrieb in Goethe’s comparative anatomy.- Chapter 6: “Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die Triebe”: Jacobi on Reason as a Form of Life.- Chapter 7: Kant on Driving Forces: Parallels and Differences in Kant’s Conceptualization of Trieb and Triebfeder.- Chapter 8: The drive to society in Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment.- Chapter 9: Feeling and life in Kant’s account of the beautiful and the sublime.- Chapter 10: Equine Driving: Plato, Kant and Fichte on the Teamwork of the Mind.- Chapter 11: “The drive to be an I is at the same time the drive to think and to feel.” Hardenberg/Novalis on Drives, Faculties and Powers.- Chapter 12: Drive, Will, and Reason: Reinhold and Schiller on Realizing Freedom after Kant.- Chapter 13: Drives in Schelling: Drives as cognitive faculties.- Chapter 14: The Trieb of Dialectic—Systematic and Thematic Extension of the Concept of Trieb in Hegel.- Chapter 15: Trieb and Triebe in Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of nature.