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Critique in German Philosophy
SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

Rodolphe Gasché, editor
Critique in German Philosophy
From Kant to Critical Theory
Edited by
María del Rosario Acosta López and J. Colin McQuillan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Acosta López, María del Rosario, editor. | McQuillan, J. Colin, 1979– editor.
Title: Critique in German philosophy : from Kant to critical theory / María del Rosario Acosta López and J. Colin McQuillan., eds.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020. | Series: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020000095 | ISBN 9781438480275 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438480282 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Philosophy, German.
Classification: LCC B2521 .C75 2020 | DDC 193—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000095
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
María del Rosario Acosta López and J. Colin McQuillan
1 The Struggle between Dogmatism and Skepticism in the Prussian Academy: A Precedent for Kantian Critique
Catalina González
2 Pure Sensibility as a Source of Corruption: Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics in the Inaugural Dissertation and Critique of Pure Reason 39
Karin de Boer
3 Critique in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason : Why This Critique Is Not a Critique of Pure Practical Reason
Avery Goldman
4 On an Aesthetic Dimension of Critique: The Time of the Beautiful in Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters
María del Rosario Acosta López
5 Not Yet a System, Not Yet a Science: Reinhold and Fichte on Kant’s Critique 111
J. Colin McQuillan
6 Schelling’s Philosophical Letters on Doctrine and Critique
G. Anthony Bruno
7 Critique With a Small C : Herder’s Critical Philosophical Practice and Anticritical Polemics
Rachel Zuckert
8 Irony and the Possibility of Romantic Criticism: Friedrich Schlegel as Poet-Critic
Karolin Mirzakhan
9 Alexander von Humboldt: A Critic of Nature
Elizabeth Millán Brusslan
10 Critique, Refutation, Appropriation: Strategies of Hegel’s Dialectic
Angelica Nuzzo
11 Abstraction and Critique in Marx: The Case of Debt
Rocío Zambrana
12 Nietzsche’s Project of Reevaluation: What Kind of Critique?
Daniel R. Rodríguez-Navas
13 Kantian Critique, Its Ethical Purification by Hermann Cohen, and Its Reflective Transformation by Wilhelm Dilthey
Rudolf A. Makkreel
14 Transcendental Phenomenology as Radical Immanent Critique: Subversions and Matrices of Intelligibility
Andreea Smaranda Aldea
15 From the Metaphysics of Law to the Critique of Violence
Peter Fenves
16 Is There Critique in Critical Theory? The Claim of Happiness on Theory
Richard A. Lee Jr.
17 Critique as Melancholy Science
Amy Allen
18 Reality and Resistance: Habermas and Haslanger on Objectivity, Social Critique, and the Possibility of Change
Federica Gregoratto
19 The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique
Christoph Menke
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Many of the chapters included in this volume were presented at a conference that took place in Chicago at DePaul University in November, 2017. The editors would like to thank everyone who participated in the conference—those who attended and those who presented their papers. We would especially like to thank Luis Guzmán, Thomas Khurana, Ronald Mendoza de Jesús, and Daniel R. Rodríguez-Navas for serving as moderators, as well as Ashley Fleshman, Khafiz Kerimov, Ashleigh Morales, and Gisela Reyes for their assistance throughout the conference.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), DePaul University Research Council, and St. Mary’s University Research Council for awarding us grants that made the conference and this volume possible. The support provided by Michael Thomanek and the DAAD was essential to the success of the conference. The time, effort, and resources devoted to the conference by the chair of the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University, William McNeill, and the department assistant, Mary Amico, were absolutely crucial. So was the administrative support provided by Anndria Flores and Rose Mary Gallegos from St. Mary’s University.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone at SUNY Press for supporting the publication of this volume. Andrew Kenyon, Jenn Bennett-Genthner, and Rebecca Colesworthy, our editors, were extremely helpful throughout the publication process. We appreciate their consistent support of the project, as well as their patience. The encouragement and recommendations of the two anonymous reviewers were also very helpful. Greg Convertino provided invaluable assistance with the proofs and index. Last, but certainly not least, we are proud to see this volume published in a series edited by Rodolphe Gasché, whose work has always been an inspiration to us.
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used in the notes for citing the following works: Ak. Kant, Immanuel. Kants gesammelte Schriften (Akademie Ausgabe) . Edited by the Royal Prussian (later German) Academy of Sciences. Berlin: Georg Reimer, later Walter de Gruyter, 1900–. AF Schlegel, Friedrich. Athenaeum fragments. In Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe . Edited by Ernst Behler, Jean Jacques Anstett, and Hans Eichner. München: F. Schöningh, 1958. CF Schlegel, Friedrich. Critical ( Lyceum ) fragments. In Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe . Edited by Ernst Behler, Jean Jacques Anstett, and Hans Eichner. München: F. Schöningh, 1958. GA Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften . Edited by Erich Fuchs, Hans Gliwitzky, Reinhard Lauth, and Peter K. Schneider. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1962–2012. GS Dilthey, Wilhelm. Gesammelte Schriften . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, 1913–2005. HA Schiller, Friedrich. Werke in Drei Bänden . Edited by Gerhard Fricke and Herbert Göpfert. München: Hanser Verlag, 1966. Hua Husserl, Edmund. Husserliana . Edited by Rudolph Bernet and Ullrich Melle. Dodrecht: Springer, 1950–. Individual works cited by volume number: 1: Cartesianische Meditationen und Pariser Vorträge , ed. Stephan Strasser (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1950); 3/1: Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie I: Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenologie , ed. Karl Schuhmann (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976); 4: Ideen zur einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie II: Phänomenologische Untersuchungen zur Konstitution , ed. Marly Biemel (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1952); 6: Die Krisis de Europäischen Wissenschaften und die Transzendentale Phänomenologie , ed. Walter Biemel (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1954); 11: Analysen zur Passiven Synthesis. Aus Vorlesungs- und Forschungsmanuskripten 1918–1926 , ed. Margot Fleischer (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966); 23: Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung 1898–1925 , ed. Eduard Marbach (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980); 29: Die Krisis der Europäischen Wissenschaften und die Transzendentale Phänomenologie, Ergänzungsband, Texte aus dem Nachlass 1934–1937 , ed. Reinhold N. Smid (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993). IF Schlegel, Friedrich. Ideas fragments. In Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe . Edited by Ernst Behler, Jean Jacques Anstett, and Hans Eichner. München: F. Schöningh, 1958. KFSA Schlegel, Friedrich. Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe . Edited by Ernst Behler, Jean Jacques Anstett, and Hans Eichner. München: F. Schöningh, 1958. NA Schiller, Friedrich. Schillers Werke—Nationalausgabe . Edited by Julius Petersen und Gerhard Fricke. Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1943–. ND Adorno, Theodor. Negative Dialektik . In Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970–1997. SW One of three references, distinguished by context: Dilthey, Wilhelm. Selected Works . Edited by Rudolf Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989–. Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. Sämmtliche Werke . Edited by Immanuel Hermann Fichte. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1971. Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schellings sämmtliche Werke . Edited by K.F.A. Schelling. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1856–1861. TW Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Werke in zwanzig Bände . Edit