I agree with the first answer, insofar as it’s easy to lose sight of what’s really in front of you when you start over-relying on labels to pre-structure how you look at the world—the labels themselves need to be objects of reflection. But still, I’ll give you some labels and trust that you treat them critically.
Imo, German philosophy does have a valuable, and underappreciated, perspective to offer to the anglophone world when it comes to how one might conceive of rationality.
The classic ‘sequence’ would be Kant → Fichte → Schelling → Hegel, and of course Nietzsche, who is also a post-Kantian via Schopenhauer. I can recommend Hegel in particular.
As for the east bloc, of course Socialism developed its own philosophies, and it’s also definitely true that, for instance, Adorno and Horkheimer made valuable contributions to that discourse coming from a post-marxist perspective, but at least from where I’m standing it looks like the result is almost entirely negative.
“Evil doesn’t mean anything or teach us anything except not to be evil”, you know.
I agree with the first answer, insofar as it’s easy to lose sight of what’s really in front of you when you start over-relying on labels to pre-structure how you look at the world—the labels themselves need to be objects of reflection. But still, I’ll give you some labels and trust that you treat them critically.
Imo, German philosophy does have a valuable, and underappreciated, perspective to offer to the anglophone world when it comes to how one might conceive of rationality.
The classic ‘sequence’ would be Kant → Fichte → Schelling → Hegel, and of course Nietzsche, who is also a post-Kantian via Schopenhauer. I can recommend Hegel in particular.
As for the east bloc, of course Socialism developed its own philosophies, and it’s also definitely true that, for instance, Adorno and Horkheimer made valuable contributions to that discourse coming from a post-marxist perspective, but at least from where I’m standing it looks like the result is almost entirely negative.
“Evil doesn’t mean anything or teach us anything except not to be evil”, you know.