Hegel's Critique of Kant From Dichotomy to Identity [Hardcover]

Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel's critique of Kant's theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of cognition that Kant defended in his Critical period. The book examines key features of what Kant identifies as the discursive character of our mode of cognition, and considers Hegel's reasons for arguing that these features condemn Kant's theoretical philosophy to scepticism as well as dualism. Sedgwick goes on to present in a sympathetic light Hegel's claim to derive from certain Kantian doctrines clues to a superior form of idealism, a form of idealism that better captures the nature of our cognitive powers and their relation to objects.

Introduction
1. Intuitive versus Discursive Forms of Understanding in Kant's Critical Philosophy: Introduction
2. Organic Unity as the 'True Unity' of the Intuitive Intellect
3. Hegel on the 'Subjectivity' of Kant's Idealism
4. Hegel on the Transcendental Deduction of the First Critique
5. Subjectivity as Part of an Original Identity
6. The Question-Begging Nature of Kantian Critique: Kant on the Arguments of the Antinomies
Bibliography
Index

The volume is clearly written, impressively argued, and transparently structured. --Journal of the History of Philosophy

[Her reading] does much to dispel some of the cruder characterizations of Hegel's criticisms of Kant, and to show that these criticisms are deeper than often supposed . . . [The book] will therefore clearly make a considerable mark on any future debates in this area, and I would expect it to become a central point of reference. --Robert Stern,British Journal of the History of Philosophy

The book is carefully argued and gives the most comprehensive account yet of Hegel's engagement with Kant's theoretical philosophy . . . As a whole, this book sets a new standard for research on the relation of Kant and Hegel.lã)