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What is the unlimited communication community?

transcendental pragmatics as contemporary Fichteanism

Michihito Yoshime

pp. 273-292

Abstract

The methods of transcendental philosophy employed by Kant and German idealism have, since the linguistic turn, been targets of contemporary philosophy's mistrust. The theme philosophy is most interested in today is not subjectivity but intersubjectivity, which is addressed primarily in terms of language rather than consciousness. Moreover, it is now not transcendental but realistic, naturalistic, and empirical approaches that occupy philosophy's mainstream. On the other hand, several attempts to revive transcendental methods have been made. Transcendental pragmatics, inter alia, identifies itself as a contemporary version of Kantianism in the sense that it transforms the classical methods of transcendental philosophy into a "language-philosophical" method. In this chapter, I examine this transformation and compare its methodology with the classical tradition's.

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Rockmore Tom, Breazeale Daniel (2014) Fichte and transcendental philosophy. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 273-292

DOI: 10.1057/9781137412232_18

Full citation:

Yoshime Michihito (2014) „What is the unlimited communication community?: transcendental pragmatics as contemporary Fichteanism“, In: T. Rockmore & D. Breazeale (eds.), Fichte and transcendental philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, 273–292.