Freedom after Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self

Abstract

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The eighteenth century: Kant and his contemporaries -- freedom and normativity -- 1 Freedom, radical evil and 'ought implies can': A problem for Kant -- 2 Reinhold on free will and moral obligation: A Kantian response -- 3 Kant and the fate of freedom: 1788-1800 -- 4 Fichte on self-sufficiency and teleology -- Part II The nineteenth century: The post-Kantians, idealists and pragmatists -- nature, politics and experience -- 5 The feeling of freedom: Schelling on the role of freedom in grasping nature -- 6 Is autonomy sufficient for freedom? -- 7 Freedom and Hegel's theory of the state -- 8 'In and through their association': Freedom and communism in Marx -- 9 Mill on freedom, normativity and spontaneity -- 10 Practical grounds for freedom: Kant and James on freedom, experience and an open future -- Part III The twentieth century: New developments -- freedom, the self and others -- 11 Levinas and finite freedom -- 12 Rethinking existentialism: From radical freedom to project sedimentation -- 13 Murdoch and freedom -- Index -- Imprint.