Kant’s critical idealism planted seeds for later ideology theory without historicizing knowledge
Evidence
Kantianism (with its roots in both Cartesian rationalism and Lockean empiricism) took the abstract Enlightenment notion of “Reason” and subjected it to a thoroughgoing critique. Kant asserted the primacy of the structures and categories of “mind” over matter. It was “mind” which organized experience into intelligible wholes. Mind “constructed” reality. The trace of Kantianism is to be found in many of the subsequent theories of “ideology,” though—because it was itself a critical idealism—it did not promote a study of the historical roots of knowledge. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 325
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Kracauer read Kant’s epistemology as a prolegomenon to metaphysics, not scepticism (similarity 0.81)
- Ideology critique has been shadowed by claims to absolute truth since its inception (similarity 0.80)
- Post-Kantian philosophy feverishly reclaimed intellectual intuition as a guarantee of its high claims (similarity 0.79)
- German idealists like Kant and Hegel remained essentially pre-Humian rationalists (similarity 0.79)
- Kant’s categorical imperative is refuted by historical particularity (similarity 0.78)