German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge: (eBook)

Nectarios G. Limnatis received a Ph.D. (2004) from the Department of Philosophy, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research, and another Ph.D. (1996) from the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University. His research interests span the History of Philosophy (particularly, German Idealism from Kant to Hegel and Marx), 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Ethics. He has taught at various universities in Europe and the USA, and is currently teaching at Hofstra University in New York. Besides articles and book reviews in several languages, he has written Manipulation: Essence, Appearances, Ways of Sublation (Moscow: Ekonomycheskaya Demokratya 2000, in Russian), and co-edited Prospettive sul Postmoderno, vol. 1: Considerazioni epistemologiche, vol. 2: Ricerche etico-politiche (Milano: Edizioni Mimesis, 2006, in Italian). At present, he is working on the edition of a book called The Contours of Hegel’s Dialectic (forthcoming). Further projects include A Critical Theory of Globalization and Hegel and Analytic Philosophy.  

INTRODUCTION.
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 Schelling2.1. 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 Meaning3.1. 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 Reality4.1. The Idea of an Epistemological Reading of the Science of Logic 4.2. Toward an Epistemological Totality.
CONCLUSION. BIBLIOGRAPHY