Faustino Fabbianelli - Böcker

Reinhold’s Elementary Philosophy is the first system of transcendental philosophy after Kant. The scholarship of the last years has understood it in different ways: as a model of Grundsatzphilosophie, as a defense of the concept of freedom, as a transformation of philosophy into history of philosophy. The present investigation intends to underline another ‘golden thread’ that runs through the writings of Reinhold from 1784 to 1794: that which sees in the Elementary Philosophy a system of transcendental psychology.

This volume aims to make a contribution to the debate surrounding the renaissance of Kant-Studies in the last few decades, with a particular emphasis upon the ‘space of feelings’. Kant dominated the modern debate concerning reason, but he did not underestimate the sphere of sensibility. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section is dedicated to the connection between feelings and action from moral, political and religious perspectives. The second section focuses on the feelings and judgements, considering both scientific and aesthetical approaches. The third and fourth sections are dedicated to the legacy of Kant’s philosophy. In particular, while the fourth one concentrates on Kant’s heritage in the discussion on feelings, the third one deals specifically with the topic feelings in connection with environmental discussions from a Kantian perspective.

The volume offers a different image of classical German philosophy with special reference to the topic of forms of knowledge. Concepts like “cognition,” “knowing,” and “belief” find their explication within different speculative frameworks and are investigated in more and less well-known authors, including but not limited to Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Fries, Eschenmeyer, and W. Humboldt.

Diese Aufsatzsammlung ist der erste ausführliche Versuch, eine Verbindung zwischen dem Denken der klassischen deutschen Philosophie und Husserls Phänomenologie herzustellen.