Kant and the Path of German Idealism : Competing Accounts of Cognition

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Kants critical philosophy emerged within a philosophical landscape ripe for change, and it provided an unprecedented blueprint for how to scientifically, ethically, and spiritually reconcile subjective experience within the unique realities of modernity. Nevertheless, Kants critical system encountered numerous challenges along its path toward influence. Drawing upon key texts from the Golden Age of philosophical scholarship from Kant to Hegel, Kant and the Path of German Idealism illuminates the trajectory of Kants critical foundation as it was initially received, developed, and ostensibly usurped. What emerges from Daniel Patrick Kellys reading of this philosophical period is the fundamental centrality of Kants discursive account of cognition. Kelly contends that the early and steady erosion of the Kantian discursive foundationwhich is theoretically central to the strength, integrity, and applicability of the Kantian systemwas largely due to persistent Neo-Spinozist developments, misunderstandings of Kants radical ideas, and the inability of Kant himself to sufficiently defend and further explicate his epistemology. This book also examines the revisionist developments of the immanent systems of Kants German Idealist successors, presenting their systematic efforts as cautionary tales in their coice to reject Kants epistemic wisdom.