Kant holds a key position in the history of modern philosophy as
the last great figure to belong fully to both the Anglo-American
analytic tradition and the Continental tradition. As the world's
foremost scholar of Kant and German Idealism, Dieter Henrich
combines an encyclopedic knowledge of Kant's texts with an equally
profound understanding of the philosophers of preceding and
succeeding centuries. In this collection comprising four of his
most influential essays, Henrich proves himself unique in the
conjunction of philosophical acumen, insight, and originality that
he brings to Kant interpretation. Henrich's distinctive
contribution has been to break through the entrenched stereotypes
of the ontological and neo-Kantian schools of Kant interpretation
in order to place Kant's major ideas in their historical and
developmental context, demonstrating their enduring philosophical
significance. Henrich has shown how Kant's attempt to overcome the
dichotomy between rationalism and moral-sense philosophy led to a
lifelong struggle to establish the unity of theoretical and
practical reason and the inseparability of the motivational force
of the principle of ethics from its function as a principle for
ethical judgment. But Henrich has also shown how Kant's project of
unification contained fundamental tensions that called forth the
projects of such post-Kantians as Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel,
which explored new approaches within the Kantian framework. The
heart of Henrich's interpretation of Kant, the essays in this book
present a persuasive picture of the development of Kant's moral
philosophy and give an account of the argumentative strategies
determining all the aspects of Kant'sphilosophy. They reflect
Henrich's general interest in the unity of reason as well as his
special interest in self-consciousness as both a key concept of
modern philosophy and the key to the highly disputed interpretation
of Kant's transcendental deduction of categories.
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