Embodied Self

Thandeka is Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Williams College. The name "Thandeka" was given to her by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984.

• List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Schleiermacher's Critique of Modern PhilosophySchleiermacher's Dialektik: An Unfamiliar StorySchleiermacher's Reconstruction of the SelfChapter One. Kant's Problem Schleiermacher Discovers KantKant's Moral Link to GodSchleiermacher's Existential Link to 'God'Kant Discovers the Gap in His Critical PhilosophyKant's a priori Aporia: The Two Selves in Kant's First CritiqueIdealism's One-sidednessChapter Two. Fichte's Insight Beck's Standpoint: Original ReconciliationFichte's Standpoint: Intellectual IntuitionSchleiermacher's Scant PraiseKant's Conflicted CondemnationChapter Three. Schleiermacher's New Vocabulary for ConsciousnessThe Two-fold Nature of an Act of Thinking: The Organicand Intellectual FunctionsConsciousnessObjective and Subjective ConsciousnessConcepts and JudgmentsThe Limits of Determinate ThinkingDenkenwollen vs. Denken: The Will to Think vs. Actual ThinkingThe Ethical SubjectThe Physical SubjectSchleiermacher's Three-fold StrategySchleiermacher's Master KeyKant, Beck, and Fichte RevisitedChapter Four. Schleiermacher's Original Insight The Point of IndifferenceThe Common BorderThe Means of TransitionAnschauung: Object-less AwarenessGefühl: Subject-less AwarenessThe Source of CertitudeThe Two Tiers of FeelingConsciousness of GodConclusionChapter Five. The Embodied Self The Two Canons of Schleiermacher's DialektikConclusionNotes Selected Bibliography Index

"What I like most about this book is its presentation and elaboration of Schleiermacher's lectures on dialectics, which is probably the most important untranslated material in fundamental philosophy of nineteenth-century European thought. Previous English accounts have not brought out the contemporary impact of this work."The topic is certainly important since it addresses basic issues that arise out of the world of Kant, the most influential philosopher of the modern world. The author's view that Kant loses the unity of human selfhood and that Schleiermacher viably meets this problem with his analysis of the philosophical ingredients of knowing and being locates the book in a prominent area of continuing interest." — Jack Verheyden, The Claremont Graduate School