Book contents
- Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy
- Modern European Philosophy
- Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Judgement and the German Idealists
- Chapter 2 Bergson and Thinking as Dissociation
- Chapter 3 Sartre and Thinking as Imaging
- Chapter 4 Merleau-Ponty and the Indeterminacy of Perception
- Chapter 5 Derrida and Différance
- Chapter 6 Foucault, Power, and the Juridico-Discursive
- Chapter 7 Deleuze and the Question of Determination
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Judgement and the German Idealists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
- Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy
- Modern European Philosophy
- Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Judgement and the German Idealists
- Chapter 2 Bergson and Thinking as Dissociation
- Chapter 3 Sartre and Thinking as Imaging
- Chapter 4 Merleau-Ponty and the Indeterminacy of Perception
- Chapter 5 Derrida and Différance
- Chapter 6 Foucault, Power, and the Juridico-Discursive
- Chapter 7 Deleuze and the Question of Determination
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The opening chapter looks at the role of judgement in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, focusing on the way in which the legislative function of the understanding is central to transcendental idealism. It shows how Kant associates determination with judgement, and how this association is maintained in Hölderlin and Schelling’s efforts to resolve certain aporias in the Kantian system, with being understood as indeterminate because it differs from the world of judgement. It concludes by showing how Hegel resolves difficulties presented by Hölderlin’s distinction between judgement and being by seeing judgement as an abstraction from a richer process of reason. As such, it demonstrates the centrality of judgement in the German Idealist tradition.
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- Judgement and Sense in Modern French PhilosophyA New Reading of Six Thinkers, pp. 9 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022