Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Hamann's Historical and Philosophical Significance
The London Conversion and Its Philosophical Consequences
The Summer of 1759: The Stirrings of the Sturm und Drang
The Sokratische Denkwurdigkeiten
Kant, Hamann, and the Optimism Controversy
The Kinderphysik Fiasco
Aesthetica in nuce and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
The "Metakritik": Genesis, Contents, and Consequences
The Historical Significance of the Pantheism Controversy
The Rise of Spinozism in Germany, 1680-1786
The Dispute over Lessing's Spinozism
The Philosophical Significance of the Controversy
Jacobi's First Critique of Reason
Jacobi's Second Critique of Reason
Jacobi's Defense of Faith
Mendelssohn's Place in the History of Philosophy
In Defense of Reason
Mendelssohn's Nightmare, or, the Method of Orientation
The Critique of Spinozism and Purified Pantheism
Mendelssohn's Covert Critique of Kant
Thomas Wizenmann's Resultate
Kant's Contribution to the Pantheism Controversy
Wizenmann's Reply to Kant
Jacobi's Attack on Kant
Herder and the Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind
Herder on the Origin of Language
Hamann and Herder's Debate over the Origin of Language
Herder's Genetic Method
The Principles of Herder's Vitalism
Kant's Quarrel with Herder
The Kant-Herder Controversy and the Origins of the Third Kritik
Herder and the Pantheism Controversy
Popularphilosophie: A Sketch of a Movement
Highlights of the Lockean Campaign against Kant
The Garve Affair
Two Early Critics: C. G. Selle and D. Tiedemann
The Lockean Ringleader, J. G. Feder
Feder's Circle: A. G. Tittel and A. Weishaupt
The Good Pastor Pistorius
Leitmotivs of the Wolffian Campaign
Revolution versus Reaction
The Wolffian Defense of Metaphysics
The Thorn in Kant's Side, J. A. Ulrich
The Scrooge of Tiibingen, J. F.Flatt
Platner's Meta-Critical Skepticism
The Eberhard Controversy
The Consequences of the Wolffian Campaign
Reinhold's Historical Significance
Reinhold's Early Quarrel with Kant
Reinhold's Briefe and Conversion to the Critical Philosophy
The Path toward the Elementarphilosophie
Reinhold's Critique of Kant and the Aims of the Elementarphilosophie
Reinhold's Methodology
Reinhold's Phenomenological Project
Reinhold's Proposition of Consciousness and the New Theory of Representation
The Crisis of the Elementarphilosophie
Schulze's Historical Significance and Influence
Schulze's Meta-Critical Skepticism
The Critique of Reinhold
The Meta-Critique of Kant
Strengths and Weaknesses of Schulze's Skepticism
Maimon's Historical Significance and the Question of the Unity of His Thought
Maimon's Skepticism
The Idea of an Infinite Understanding
The Theory of Differentials
The New Theory of Space and Time
The Critical Middle Path
The Elimination of the Thing-in-itself
Maimon's Transcendental Logic
The Principle of Determinability
Maimon's Controversy with Reinhold
Maimon versus Schulze
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index