Freedom, Dependence and Necessity / [electronic resource] James, David creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). The claim that Rousseau's writings influenced the development of Kant's critical philosophy, and German idealism, is not a new one. As correct as the claim may be, it does not amount to a systematic account of Rousseau's place within this philosophical tradition. It also suggests a progression whereby Rousseau's achievements are eventually eclipsed by those of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, especially with respect to the idea of freedom. In this book David James shows that Rousseau presents certain challenges that Kant and the idealists Fichte and Hegel could not fully meet, by making dependence and necessity, as well as freedom, his central concerns, and thereby raises the question of whether freedom in all its forms is genuinely possible in a condition of human interdependence marked by material inequality. His study will be valuable for all those studying Kant, German idealism and the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas. David James. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Idealism, German B2743 .J36 2013 193 9781139795388 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139795388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139795388 UkCbUP 120928 20180107143410.0 CR9781139795388