Modern Routes

Lecture 8, “Kant’s Copernican Revolution,” considers different views of the project of Immanuel Kant’s three critiques and explains Kant’s position as both an enlightenment and a modern thinker.

Lecture 9, “Kant and Critique,” explicates Immanuel Kant’s practice of critical—transcendental—critique by a closer examination of Critique of Pure Reason and brief excursions into Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment.

Lecture 10, “Hegel and Dialectics”—introduces Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s theory of dialectics as a movement (in Time) through the negation of the negation.

Lecture 11—“Hegel and Totality,” elaborates on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s concept of the cunning of Reason as a temporal move toward the Absolute, the end of History and Time, and its implications for his view of human history as presented in the Phenomenology of Spirit.