German Idealism

di Pons Malleus (Autore)

Pons Malleus, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Philosophy, in every age, has wrestled with the nature of reality, the limits of knowledge, and the place of the human spirit within the cosmos. Few intellectual movements have pursued these questions with such depth, rigor, and ambition as German Idealism. Emerging from the crucible of Enlightenment rationalism and propelled by the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, German Idealism became one of the most audacious and transformative episodes in the history of Western thought. This audiobook is dedicated to unpacking the rich philosophical legacy of this school of thought—a movement that spans roughly from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to the later writings of Hegel in the 1830s. In that relatively short span of time, a group of thinkers—Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel foremost among them—completely reimagined the relationship between mind and world, freedom and necessity, subject and object. They laid the groundwork for subsequent developments in phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and even modern cognitive science. At the heart of German Idealism lies a radical proposition: that the world we experience is not a thing apart from us, but is, in some profound sense, shaped by the very structures of human consciousness. For Kant, this meant that space, time, and causality are not things-in-themselves but conditions of human experience. For Fichte, it meant that the self must posit the world in order to recognize itself. For Schelling, nature itself was seen as a dynamic, living force—an unconscious mind striving toward self-awareness. And for Hegel, history became the stage on which Spirit realizes its freedom through a dialectical process of self-determination. This audiobook is made in the belief that these ideas still matter. Whether one agrees with them or not, engaging seriously with German Idealism means confronting some of the most profound philosophical questions ever posed.

• Autore: Pons Malleus
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 02:39:36
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Pons Malleus
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798318477782