Full name: The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte

Author: Frederick C. Beiser Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780674295032 067429503X

The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modern Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed the decline of the Aufkl�rung, the completion of Kant's philosophy, and the beginnings of post-Kantian idealism. Thanks to Frederick C. Beiser we can newly appreciate the influence of Kant's critics on the development of his philosophy. Beiser brings the controversies, and the personalities who engaged in them, to life and tells a story that has uncanny parallels with the debates of the present. Similar books: The Cambridge Companion to Kant by Paul Guyer Kant by Roger Scruton Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer Philosophy For Dummies by Tom Morris Introduction to philosophy by Jacques Maritain Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Philosophy by Philip Stokes An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Last Word by Thomas Nagel Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson Spinoza by Roger Scruton The Heart of Philosophy by Jacob Needleman Enlightenment Contested by Jonathan I. Israel Mourning Sickness by Rebecca Comay History of Philosophy by Julian Marias Renaissance Thought and its Sources by Paul Oskar Kristeller Philosophic Pride by Christopher Brooke