Abstract

Overshadowed by Kant and Hegel, the intervening figures have received comparatively little attention from American scholars. Whatever the reasons, they do not dispel the irony of this state of affairs, for the relationship between the philosophies of Kant and Hegel cannot be fully understood apart from considering these figures, chief among them being Fichte and Schelling. Whatever shortcomings may be identified by “specialists” in German idealism or nonspecialists “interested in the intellectual transition from Kant to Kierkegaard to Marx”—the work reviewed here is intended for both groups—it unquestionably makes a valuable contribution toward remedying this oversight.