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39Paragraphs 20 and 26 of the Transcendental Deduction (Second Edition of the Critique)Idealistic Studies 10 (2): 131-145. 1980.Whether transcendental arguments are possible or not is a question that has received wide attention in the analytical literature of recent years. It is important to distinguish carefully, however, between Kant’s own Transcendental Deduction and the kind of reasoning which has lately been dubbed “transcendental.” Eva Schaper has accurately defined the difference some years ago. The “transcendental arguments” to which we have recently been accustomed are arguments that seek to establish the logica…Read more
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39The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel AllwillPhilosophical Review 105 (2): 248. 1996.Jacobi’s importance in the history of German philosophy has long been recognized. Yet his writings have been little studied in the English-speaking world, mainly because very few of them have been translated. George di Giovanni’s translation and edition of some of Jacobi’s main philosophical writings now fills this serious gap. This is the first major scholarly edition in English of Jacobi’s writings. The quality of the translation and the editing set a high standard for future work. Giovanni’s …Read more
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38One More Note on the Translation of Hegel's Science of LogicThe Owl of Minerva 49 (1): 149-149. 2017.
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34The Category of Contingency i n the Hegelian LogicIn W. E. Steinkraus (ed.), Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, Humanities Press. pp. 179-200. 1980.
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32Hegel's Phenomenology and the Critique of the Enlightenment. An Essay in InterpretationLaval Théologique et Philosophique 51 (2): 251-270. 1995.
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31Real Process (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (2): 410-411. 1997.There is no doubt that the Philosophy of Nature constituted in Hegel’s mind an integral part of his system. Even in the early years of collaboration with Schelling at Jena, when Hegel’s contribution was to be the formulation of a logic consistent with Schelling’s new idealism, Hegel repeatedly produced sketches of a theory of nature. Though that early creative period in fact culminated with the Phenomenology of Spirit, a Philosophy of Nature eventually found its canonical place in the Encycloped…Read more
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30The Denver Meeting of the North American Fichte SocietyThe Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 253-253. 1993.The second biennial meeting of the North American Fichte Society was held at the University of Denver on March 19-23, 1993. Conveners were Daniel Breazeale of the University of Kentucky and Tom Rockmore of Duquesne University. Twenty-one members attended from the United States, Canada, and Switzerland. Sixteen papers were read over four sessions on all aspects of Fichte’s thought and its reception. The local arrangements by Jere Surber were excellent. It was decided to meet again in two years at…Read more
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28A Second Note Regarding the Recent Translation of Hegel's "Greater Logic"The Owl of Minerva 47 (1/2): 169-170. 2015.
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27Hegel, Nature and the Rationalization of Experience: On Allen Wood's Hegel's Ethical ThoughtDialogue 32 (4): 783-. 1993.It is a curious feature of Hegelian studies in English that its practitioners seem incapable of tackling their subject without first disclaiming any adherence to the more metaphysical side of Hegel's thought, be it called “speculative metaphysics,” “dialectical logic” or whatever. I say “curious” because I doubt that the same scholars would feel obliged to enter an equivalent disclaimer at the head of a study on, say, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza or even Newton—even though all of these classics…Read more
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27On Kantianism as a New Form of Cultural ClericyIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 635-690. 2013.
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26Hegel, Nature and the Rationalization of Experience: On Allen Wood's Hegel's Ethical ThoughtDialogue 32 (4): 783-794. 1993.It is a curious feature of Hegelian studies in English that its practitioners seem incapable of tackling their subject without first disclaiming any adherence to the more metaphysical side of Hegel's thought, be it called “speculative metaphysics,” “dialectical logic” or whatever. I say “curious” because I doubt that the same scholars would feel obliged to enter an equivalent disclaimer at the head of a study on, say, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza or even Newton—even though all of these classics…Read more
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25Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1985.Born from the combination of two projects--a presentation of the important essays from the Critical Journal of Schelling and Hegel that were still untranslated and an anthology of excerpts from the works of the generation of German thinkers ...
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25Essays on Hegel’s Logic (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1990.These essays, offered as an introduction to this central piece of Hegel's system, pose in different ways, and with different degrees of explicitness, the question of whether, and how, the logic provides a closure to the system.
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21Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by …Read more
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20The Spinozism of Fichte’s Transcendental Argument in the Lecture Notes of 1804Fichte-Studien 44 49-63. 2017.In a transcendental argument, a judgement ≫S is P≪ is unpacked into the two reflective claims: ≫I say that S is P≪, and ≫What I say is indeed the case≪; and the truth of the second is made to rest on the authority of the ≫I say≪ of the first. The argument has all the features of a testimony, where the reliability of the testimony depends on the extent to which, in being rendered, it conforms to stipulated canons of objectivity. As presented in 1804, Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre can be interpreted…Read more
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17Grazing in the Sunlight: On H. S. Harris's “The Cows in the Dark Night”Dialogue 26 (4): 653-. 1987.I have only two comments to make, both of which will appear incidental at first. Their full relevance to the paper you have just read will become clear at the end, as I hope.The first refers to Harris's remark that Jacobi, Schleiermacher and Herder “make strange bedfellows”. Actually, they do not. This is one more example, I believe, of Hegel's usual idiosyncratic yet conceptually sound classification of philosophers and philosophies. I am thinking especially of the Jacobi-Herder pair, but I sus…Read more
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16Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel AllwillMcgill-Queen's University Press. 1994.This scholarly edition is the first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact on philosophical thought in the later part of the eighteenth century, notably the way Kant was received And The early development of post-Kantian idealism. Jacobi's polemical tract Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn propelled him to notoriety in 17…Read more
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15Die Philosophie Schleiermachers (review)Idealistic Studies 17 (2): 184-184. 1987.This is an excellent little book. As the title of the series to which it belongs indicates, it is intended as an account of the results of past and present research on Schleiermacher. The book opens with a brief statement of the contemporary relevance of this Romantic philosopher-theologian and of the difficulties of interpretation that his work presents. It then goes on with a detailed history of its reception, from early in the eighteenth century to the present. The history falls, roughly, int…Read more
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13Jacobi and Reinhold in the Spotlight: A Report on Two Recent ConferencesThe Owl of Minerva 34 (1): 127-132. 2002.Two conferences recently held in Europe, one on Reinhold and the other on Jacobi, reflect this new development. Both testify to the present high degree of maturity reached by the scholarship on the subject. In both, the two philosophers finally emerge as figures spanning the distance between the late Aufklärung and the nineteenth century. In some respects, Jacobi and Reinhold are closer in mental attitudes to our contemporary world than any of the idealists. So far as the present writer is conce…Read more
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13Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831Cambridge University Press. 2021.Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel's own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza's monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di Giovanni argues, Hegel was much closer in spirit to Kant and Fichte than to Schelling. This book will be of interest to students…Read more
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13The Morally Responsible IndividualProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 49-59. 1995.
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12Religion and Rational Theology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final statement of religion was made after the death of King Frederick William II in 1797. The historical context and progression of this conflict are charted in the general introduction to the volume and in the translators' introductions to particular t…Read more
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12Religion and Rational Theology: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuael Kant (edited book)Cambridge UP. 1996.This Volume contains seven works of Kant, newly translated and edited, with Introductions. What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking? 1786 (Allen Wood) On the miscarriage of all philosophical trials in theodicy. 1791 (George di Giovanni Religion within the boundaries of mere reason. 1793 (George di Giovanni) The end of all things. 1794 (Allen Wood) The conflict of the faculties. 1798 (Mary J. Gregor & Robert Anchor) Preface to Reinhold Bernhard Jackmann's examination of the Kantian Philos…Read more
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