What is the unlimited communication community?
transcendental pragmatics as contemporary Fichteanism
pp. 273-292
in: Tom Rockmore, Daniel Breazeale (eds), Fichte and transcendental philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
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.
