Kant's Philosophy of Education: Bildung, Culture, and the Varieties of Human Perfection KU Leuven
My project will carry out a genealogy of the concept of Bildung # #self-formation# or #self-cultivation## as it evolves in the philosophy of Kant and his immediate successors. I intend to focus on four areas: (1) Kant in dialogue with Herder and Mendelssohn (2) the German romantics Hölderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis, (3) Schelling and (4) Hegel. The concept of Bildung, which Gadamer has labeled "perhaps the greatest idea of the 18th century," was ...