The Reinvention of Idealism : John William Miller and Other Navigators of the Critical Turn in American Philosophy (American Philosophy Series)

Terezakis, Katie

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781666945089
• DDC分類 191

Full Description

To understand the role Kant's critical idealism has played in the development of American philosophies, one must understand why the classical American pragmatists, different realists, and other anti-ideal theorists reject Kant's critical project, no less than how idealism has been evolving in transcendental linguistics, in philosophies of history and of technology, and in ethics. This book reconstructs the little-known system of twentieth-century American philosopher John William Miller (1895-1978), who contributed to the reinvention of critical idealism in ways that might have been too radical for his own moment, but which bear importance for ours. American philosophies tend to first fix their positions by the lodestar of Kantianism, even if their goal is to move away from it. The book tracks encounters with critical idealism among the classical American pragmatists, and in more recent expressions of anti-ideal theory and object-oriented ontology. It assesses Sellars' transcendental linguistics and Korsgaard's philosophy of agency as well as pragmatist feminist reconsiderations of the source of normative commitments. Along the way, the work finds the critical project to be evolving still, albeit in ways not anticipated by Kant.

Contents

Acknowledgments
General Introduction
List of Abbreviations

Section I: Historical Idealism: The Case for John William Miller

Chapter 1. Why John William Miller?
Chapter 2. The Ancient Heritage of Function
Chapter 3. Coming to Terms with Functioning, Coming to Functioning with Terms
Chapter 4. An American Existentialism

Section II: Resistances to Idealism: From American Pragmatism to Anti-Ideal Theory

Prelude
Chapter 5. Peirce's Conditional Idealism
Chapter 6. James's Philosophical Anthropology: The Insuperability of Sensation
Chapter 7. Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics
Chapter 8. Charles Mills's Anti-Ideal Theory
Chapter 9. Graham Harman's Weird Realism

Section III: The Persistence of Idealism

Coda
Chapter 10. Wilfred Sellars's Transcendental Linguistics
Chapter 11. Christine Korsgaard's Radical Agency
Chapter 12. A Pragmatist Feminist Reconsideration of Idealism: On Shannon Sullivan's Constructive Complicity
Chapter 13. General Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author