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Goethe, Kant, and Hegel - Discovering the Mind (Hardcover)
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Goethe, Kant, and Hegel - Discovering the Mind (Hardcover)
Series: Discovering the Mind Series
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This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a
three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates
on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings.
Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe,
Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped
by their own distinctive mentalities. Kaufmann's version of
psychohistory stays clear of gossip and is carefully documented. He
offers us a radically new understanding of two centuries of
intellectual history, but his primary focus is on self-knowledge.
He is in a unique position to perform this task by virtue of being,
according to Stephen Spender, "the best translator of Faust"; and
in Sidney Hook's view, "unquestionably the most interesting and
informative writer of Hegel in English." The foremost interpreter
of Kant, Lewis White Beck, has called this book on Goethe, Kant,
and.Hegel "fascinating" - a work which "will stir up a good many
people by telling them things they have never heard, and providing
an alternative to what is the accepted reading of that part of the
history of philosophy. The story of how personality affects
philosophy has never been better told." We are shown how Goethe
advanced the discovery of the mind more than anyone before him,
while Kant was in many ways a disaster. Hegel, like others between
1790 to 1990, tried to reconcile Kant and Goethe. Kaufmann shows
this is impossible He paints a large picture, but he is always
highly specific and details the major contributions of Goethe and
Hegel as well as the ways in which Kant's immense influence proved
catastrophic.
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