The Politics of German Idealism

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Christopher Yeomans (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University)

The Politics of German Idealism

Christopher Yeomans (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
09 September 2023

Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Social & political philosophy; History of ideas

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical context. Christopher Yeomans' guiding thought is to understand German Idealist political philosophy as political, i.e., as a set of policy options and institutional designs aimed at a broadly but distinctively German set of social problems. 'Political' here refers to use of the state's power to enforce law, and 'social' to the norms and groups which are regulated by that enforcement, but which also antedate or exceed that enforcement. Because the power to enforce law is very much still being actualized by state-building in the period at issue, 'political' refers quite narrowly to a certain kind of practical legal project rather than to a perennial set of problems from the history of philosophy. By way of method, Yeomans claims that to reveal the political nature of German Idealist political philosophy requires understanding German Idealism as both taking place in and conceptualizing its own historical present--this is the sense in which it is not only political, but political philosophy.

The most important general feature of the historical present of the German Idealists is the way in which the period from 1770 to 1830 was a transitional period between early and late modernity, a so-called saddle period (Sattelzeit) in which the metaphor is of a Bergsattel or shallow valley between two mountain peaks.

By: Christopher Yeomans (Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy Purdue University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197667309
ISBN 10: 0197667309
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 09 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Legal Standing Historicized Chapter 2: Kant and the Provisionality of Right Chapter 3: Hegel and the Plurality of Legal Standing Part II: Private Law Chapter 4: Family Chapter 5: Property Chapter 6: Inheritance Part III: Public Law Chapter 7: Fichte's Three Political Philosophies Chapter 8: Hegel's State Chapter 9: Conclusion Bibliography Index

Christopher Yeomans received his PhD at the University of California, Riverside in 2005. He began his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied primarily linguistics, literature, and literary theory. Eventually literary theory led him to critical theory and then to the classical German philosophy that serves as its foundation. After a dissertation on Hegel's theory of free will, he then became an assistant professor of philosophy at Kenyon College, joining the Purdue faculty in 2009. His broad project is to develop a political theory that integrates the conceptual riches of the Kantian theory of autonomy (free will), the phenomenological riches of an expressivist theory of moral psychology, and the political riches of concrete social and historical description.

Reviews for The Politics of German Idealism

Christopher Yeomans offers a conceptually lucid and socially-historically proficiently contextualized analysis of the political thought of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. His study is a particular achievement as he successfully navigates between the cliffs of philosophical absolutism and sociological reductionism, convincingly connecting intellectual and social history, reason and politics, thus unlocking the political thinking of German Idealism in an innovative and sophisticated manner, offering a surprising contemporary reading. * Georg Spoo, New School Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *