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Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics

Autor Corey W. Dyck
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 dec 2024
Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics offers a fresh account of philosophical developments in German philosophy in the first half of the 18th century. At the centre of this book is Wolff's seminal text on metaphysics, the Deutsche Metaphysik of 1719, a text that modernized and advanced German philosophy but also provoked a vigorous intellectual controversy which informed and animated German thought through the decades until Kant's later philosophical revolution. Corey W. Dyck draws extensively on the wider intellectual context and Wolff's own early philosophical and scientific writings to provide a new and comprehensive account of Wolff's metaphysics, with particular emphasis on Wolff's views on the human soul and God. Dyck explores the impact of Wolff's text, beginning with a widely-neglected aspect of Wolff's reception in Germany, namely, the striking uptake of his philosophy among women intellectuals and Wolff's hostile reception by his Pietist colleagues. In the concluding chapters, a number of key metaphysical debates in the aftermath of the controversy between Wolff and the Pietists are considered. The reader is shown how these two opposed intellectual systems served as the indispensable frame for metaphysical inquiry-inspiring and shaping discussion among German thinkers-in the first half of the 18th century. In the end, this all points to the rich philosophical vein exposed through the opening of the fracture between Wolffianism and Pietism, and takes a step towards giving Wolff-but also his Pietist critics and the philosophers who took up positions between them-their rightful place at the beginning of the history of classical German metaphysics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192865090
ISBN-10: 0192865099
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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"Christian Wolff was the leading philosopher of Germany in the first half of the eighteenth century, but his reputation never recovered from Immanuel Kant's criticism of the "Leibniz-Wolffian" philosophy. Yet his synthesis of the best in both rationalism and empiricism was deeply influential on Kant's approach to philosophy, and remained a force throughout German idealism. Corey W. Dyck's own unique combination of philosophical acumen and profound scholarship yields an unparalleled study of Wolff's metaphysics in its historical context that will be indispensable reading for every student of German philosophy and indeed of the history of modern philosophy generally."
Corey W. Dyck's Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics tells an important story about the history of German metaphysics before Kant. Dyck concentrates on Wolff's Deutsche Metaphysik, which was the crucial text in metaphysics before Kant. He carefully reconstructs Wolff's theories, tells us about their influence and the influences upon them. This is crucial for an understanding of the philosophy of the period and the context of Kant's later philosophy. Dyck's discussions are notable for their clarity and thoroughness. His book is to be recommended for all students of German philosophy in the classical period.
Corey W. Dyck's major new book makes an extremely important contribution to our understanding of early modern philosophy by providing an original and detailed account of German metaphysics in the first half of the eighteenth-century. At the center of Dyck's careful analyses is Christian Wolff's influential Deutsche Metaphysik of 1719 and the dispute between Wolffianism and Pietism as the framework for the metaphysical discussions of the time. Dyck examines a vast amount of material, dealing with both major and lesser-known thinkers. Notwithstanding the massive scholarship, the book is clearly written and accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. Drawing attention to the importance of the first fifty years of German metaphysics to subsequent thought, the book is an impressive combination of historical scholarship and philosophical analysis.

Notă biografică

Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy at Western University. He is the author of Kant and Rational Psychology, the translator and editor of Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750), and editor of the collection Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also recently an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.