The Embodied Self: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Solution to Kant's Problem of the Empirical Self

This book investigates the philosophic notion of self-consciousness found in the work of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher. Its central focus is on Schleiermacher's Dialektik, a posthumously published series of lectures delivered in Berlin between 1811 and 1831. In these lectures, we find Schleiermacher's most detailed delineation of the two-tiered structure of feeling (Gef hl) that established him as the father of modern Protestant theology. We also find his solution to the gap between the noumenal and empirical self in Kant's theory of self-consciousness that post-Kantian idealists attempt but failed to resolve. Schleiermacher correctly foresaw the nihilistic end to which the philosophical tradition of speculative self-consciousness would lead.

Author: Thandeka
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 08/10/1995
Pages: 151
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.14w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780791425763

About the Author
Thandeka is Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Williams College. The name Thandeka was given to her by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984.

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