Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that it had been completed. Förster assesses the steps that led from Kant’s “beginning” to Hegel’s “end” and concludes that both Kant and Hegel were indeed right. His study reveals Goethe’s significant contribution to post-Kantian thinking.
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Eckart Förster (born 12 January 1952 in Bremen) currently teaches at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Humboldt University in Berlin. He previously taught at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, and Munich, and had guest professorships in Princeton, Porto Alegre (Brazil), and Ohio State University. He published above all about Kant and the German idealism as well as about...