The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology

This volume examines the complex dialogue between German Idealism and phenomenology, two of the most important movements in Western philosophy. Twenty-four newly authored chapters by an international group of well-known scholars examine the shared concerns of these two movements; explore how phenomenologists engage with, challenge, and critique central concepts in German Idealism; and argue for the continuing significance of these ideas in contemporary philosophy and other disciplines. Chapters cover not only the work of major figures such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, but a wide range of philosophers who build on the phenomenological tradition, including Fanon, Gadamer, and Levinas.  These essays highlight key themes of the nature of subjectivity, the role of intersubjectivity, the implications for ethics and aesthetics, the impact of time and history, and our capacities for knowledge and understanding.

Key features:

·       Critically engages two of the major philosophical movements of the last 250 years

·       Draws on the insights of those movements to address contemporary issues in ethics, theory of knowledge, and political philosophy

·       Expands the range of idealist and phenomenological themes by considering them in the context of gender, postcolonial theory, and environmental concerns, as well as their global reach

·       Includes new contributions from prominent, international scholars in these fields

This Handbook is essential reading for all scholars and advanced students of phenomenology and German Idealism. With chapters on Beauvoir, Sartre, Scheler, Schutz, Stein, and Ricoeur, The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology is also ideal for scholars researching these important figures in the history of philosophy.

Introduction; Cynthia Coe.- 1. Subjectivity.- 2. Husserl’s Idealism Revisited; Dermot Moran.- 3. Transcendental Philosophy, Psychology, and Anthropology: Kant and Husserl on the “Inner Man” and the Human Being; Claudia Serban.- 4. Fichte and Husserl: Rigorous Science and the Renewal of Humankind;  Federico Ferraguto.- 5. Bodies, Authenticity, and Marcelian Problematicity;  Jill Hernandez.- 6. Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project; Sorin Baiasu. - 7. Kant and the Scandal of Intersubjectivity: Alfred Schutz’s Anthropology of Transcendence;  Jan Strassheim.- 8. Moving Beyond Hegel: The Paradox of Immanent Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy; Shannon M. Mussett.- 9. Fanon and Hegel: The Dialectic, the Phenomenology of Race, and Decolonization; Azzedine Haddour.- 10. Guidance for Mortals: Heidegger on Norms; David Batho.- 11. Husserl’s Idealism in the Kaizo Articles and Its Relation to Contemporary Moral Perfectionism;  Takashi Yoshikawa.- 12. The Blindness of Kantian Idealism Regarding Non-Human Animals and Its Overcoming by Husserlian Phenomenology; María-Luz Pintos-Peñaranda.- 13. Morality and Animality: Kant, Levinas, and Ethics as Transcendence; Cynthia D. Coe. - 14. Aesthetic Disinterestedness and the Critique of Sentimentalism; Íngrid Vendrell Ferran.- 15. Redeeming German Idealism: Schelling and Rosenzweig; Jason M. Wirth.- 16. Heidegger on Hegel on Time; Markus Gabriel.- 17. Sedimentation, Memory, and Self in Hegel and Merleau-Ponty; Elisa Magrì.- 18. Max Scheler’s Notion of History: A Juxtaposition of Phenomenology and Idealism; Zachary Davis.- 19. The Presence of Kant in Stein; Mette Lebech.- 20. Heidegger on Fichte’s Three Principles; M. Jorge de Carvalho.- 21. Hegel’s Phenomenological Method and the Later Movement of Phenomenology; Jon Stewart.- 22. On the Mutations of the Concept: Phenomenology, Conceptual Change, and The Persistence of Hegel in Merleau-Ponty’s Thought; Stephen H. Watson.- 23. The Thread of Imagination in Heidegger’s Retrieval of Kant: The Play of a Double Hermeneutic; Frank Schalow.- 24. Gadamer, German Idealism, and the Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology; Theodore George.- 25. Too Many Hegels? Ricoeur’s View of German Idealism Reconsidered; Robert Piercey.- 26. Conclusion; Cynthia Coe.

Cynthia D. Coe is Professor of Philosophy at Central Washington University, USA. She specializes in contemporary continental ethics, feminist theory, critical race theory, and the history of philosophy. She has previously published Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility (2018) and The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy, co-authored with Matthew Altman (2013).