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Article: German Idealism: the Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801.(Book Review)
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- March 1, 2004
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By Frederick C. Beiser. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. Pp. xvi + 726. $61.50.
Beiser's important earlier studies--The Fate of Reason (1987) and Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism (1992)--placed the trajectory of ideas, issues, and arguments of late 18th- and early 19th-century German philosophy and political thought within an illuminating account of their cultural and political contexts. In this work, B. shifts attention from that larger background and presents, in contrast, a closely focused analysis of the texts of six thinkers--Kant, Fichte, Holderlin, Novalis, Schlegel, and Schelling--that bear upon "one specific theme: the meaning of idealism ...