We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte, edited by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy (Routledge, 2022).

From the publisher’s website:

This book investigates various aspects of freedom as developed in the philosophical systems of Kant and Fichte.

Freedom, both Kant and Fichte insist, does not mean that we can choose or think independently from all rules or necessity, but rather that we willingly accept a certain kind of submission under these rules. Therefore, the conditions of our knowledge affect and inform our self-understanding, our willing, and the ways we justify our practical choices. The essays in this volume explore both philosophers’ conceptions of human freedom as they relate to art, history, politics, and religion. They reveal how integrating freedom into a system of thought is crucial for our understanding of modern philosophy.

System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Kant, modern philosophy, and German Studies.

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Here the table of contents.

Introduction Giovanni Pietro Basile & Ansgar Lyssy

1. The Identity of Reason Stephen Engstrom

2. Lichtenberg’s ‘Es denkt’ versus Kant’s ‘Ich denke’ Patricia Kitcher

3. Of Modal Concepts in Kant’s Transcendental Discourse Claude Piché

4. Can Practical Reason Be Artificial Dieter Schönecker

5. “The Eye of True Philosophy:” On the Relationship between Kant’s Anthropology and His Critical Philosophy Robert B. Louden

6. Kant am Pregelflusse: Site and Systemicity in the Preface to the Anthropology Susan Shell

7. Kant’s Philosophy of Religion: A Provocation to the Historical Religions Bernd Dörflinger

8. Hume and Kant on Utility, Freedom, and Justice Paul Guyer

9. Reading Fichte Today: The Prospect of a Transcendental Philosophy Marco Ivaldo

10. Fichte’s Original Presentation of the Foundational Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre: The Question of Method Marina F. Bykova

11. The Idea of Universal Monarchy in Fichte’s Practical Philosophy David James

 

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