Béatrice Longuenesse is one of the most important scholars of German philosophy in the past 50 years. This volume features original essays written by Longuenesses long-time interlocutors and former students that reflect on the breadth and influence of her work.
In Longuenesses earlier work, she shed light on the importance of subtle features of Kants and Hegels philosophical systems. Her more recent work has built on doctrines concerning the self and self-consciousness from Kant and other philosophers, demonstrating the continued relevance of history of philosophy to contemporary philosophy. The chapters are divided into two thematic sections that (1) read Kant and Hegel and (2) reflect on the state of Kantianism today. The volume concludes with an autobiographical essay written by Longuenesse that reflects on her philosophical journey. Many of the essays engage directly with Longuenesses work, while others are written on closely related themes in a similar spirit. Altogether, the chapters express the ongoing importance of Longuenesses accomplishments and the vibrant state of the field.
Kants Lasting Legacy will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in Kant, the history of German philosophy, and philosophy of mind.
Introduction Part 1: Reading Kant and Hegel
1. The Metaphysical
Deduction of the Modal Categories
2. Does Kant Defend a Normative Conception
of Self-Consciousness?
3. Kant on Friendship
4. Aesthetic Ideas and
Self-Consciousness
5. Hegel on Subjects as Objects (According to the
Phenomenology of Spirit)
6. Hegel on Contradictions Part 2: Kantianism Today
7. Is Kants Theoretical Philosophy Refuted by Later Science? The Case of
Space and Geometry
8. Self-Consciousness, Normativity, and the Agential
Perspective
9. Kant and Cogito
10. Kants Conscience and Freuds Super-Ego
11. Does Kant Debunk Robust Metaphysics?
12. Kant under the Bohdi Tree?
Anti-Individualism in Kantian Ethics
13. Kant on Jokes and Kantianism in
Joking Part 3: Biographical Reflections
14. A Philosophical Journey
Stefanie Grüne is a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. Her publications include Kant on Concepts, Intuitions, and Sensible Synthesis (2022); Is there a Gap in Kants B Deduction (2011); and Blinde Anschauung (2009).
Colin Marshall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. His recent publications include Kants Derivation of the Moral Ought from a Metaphysical Is (2022), Kant on Modality (2024, with Aaron Barker), and Schopenhauer on the Futility of Suicide (2025).
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