The Transcendental Turn
Sebastian Gardner and Matthew Grist
Abstract
The aim of this collection is to map the historical trajectory of transcendental philosophy and the major forms that it has taken. The contributions, from leading contemporary scholars, focus on the question of what the transcendental turn consists in—its motivation, justification, and implications; and the limitations and problems which it arguably confronts—with reference to the relevant major figures in modern philosophy, including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein. Central themes and topics discussed include the distinction of realism from ... More
The aim of this collection is to map the historical trajectory of transcendental philosophy and the major forms that it has taken. The contributions, from leading contemporary scholars, focus on the question of what the transcendental turn consists in—its motivation, justification, and implications; and the limitations and problems which it arguably confronts—with reference to the relevant major figures in modern philosophy, including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein. Central themes and topics discussed include the distinction of realism from idealism, the transcendental response to skepticism, the relation of transcendental philosophy to metaphysics and ontology, the relation of transcendental idealism to absolute idealism, the question of how transcendental conclusions stand in relation to (and whether they can be made compatible with) naturalism, the application of transcendental thought to foundational issues in ethics, and the problematic relation of phenomenology to transcendental enquiry.
Keywords:
Kant,
transcendental,
idealism,
naturalism,
Fichte,
Hegel,
Nietzsche,
Husserl,
Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty,
Wittgenstein,
stoics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198724872 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724872.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Sebastian Gardner, editor
University College London
Matthew Grist, editor
Cabinet Office, London
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