Sartre, Intersubjectivity, and German Idealism

reconstructing german idealism and romanticism : historicism and presentism

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

Schopenhauer’s Contraction of Reason: Clarifying Kant and Undoing German Idealism

Schopenhauer’s claim that the essence of the world consists in Wille encounters well known difficulties. Of particular importance is the conflict of this metaphysical claim with his restrictive account of conceptuality. This paper attempts to make sense of Schopenhauer’s position by restoring him to the context of post-Kantian debate, with special attention to the early notebooks and Fourfold R...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Adler and Sartre: comment.

I was very much interested in the article by Rom and Ansbacher entitled "An Adlerian Case or a Character by Sartre?" (4) not only because of its intrinsic value but also because I had myself analyzed the hero of Sartre's story "Erostratus" (5, pp. 41-58) and others of this author's characters from the angle of Adler's Individual Psychology some I 5 years ago (6, 7). Before quoting from this ana...

the transition from ethics to religion in german idealism

the relationship between ethics and religion, which can be an issue in all the history of philosophy and philosophy in all systems studied. but the discussion of kant practical reason and its separation as a theoretical sense and followed by discussion of metaphysical and theological ethics and religion to the realm of practical reason bring about other effects found. although kant denies all a...