Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy. By Edward Baring. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+494. $49.95.

Abstract This paper takes into account Bertrand Russell’s, Francis H. Bradley’s, and Immanuel Kant’s arguments about “what is the real Julius Caesar” to examine (i) Russell’s characterization of analytic philosophy as a “new philosophy”, born as a revolt against idealism, and (ii) the actual relationship between Bradley and Kant. In order to understand who Russell was actually revolting against, we analyse the features of Bradley’s idealism and investigate how he understood and interpreted Kant’s transcendental revolution. By using the notion of Julius Caesar as a cogent comparative case study, we show that Bradley’s reading of Kant was not well-grounded. Therefore, we argue that Bradley’s interpretation of Hegel’s idealism was also unconventional. This misunderstanding in turn shaped and characterised Russell’s revolt against idealism. As a result, we show that analytic and continental philosophy began to part ways with the birth of what Russell calls new philosophy much earlier than their encounter at Davos. The reasons for this parting can be found in British idealists’ erroneous interpretation of Kant’s transcendental philosophy.

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ECONOMICS FOR THE REAL WORLD - Thomas K. McCraw: Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (Cambridge, MA and London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 719. $35.00)

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670508000247 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 136-139

Author(s):

David Felix

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Creative Destruction ◽

Harvard University ◽

The Real ◽

Joseph Schumpeter

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Religion and Representation

The Year s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory ◽

10.1093/ywcct/mbaa015 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Joanna Rzepa

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Book History ◽

Postcolonial Studies ◽

Continental Philosophy ◽

Translation Studies ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Literary Studies ◽

The Real ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This review is divided into three sections: 1. Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914; 2. Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy; 3. ‘Translation and Religion: Crafting Regimes of Identity’, a thematic issue of Religion edited by Hephzibah Israel and Matthias Frenz. Taken together, these works provide an overview of approaches that demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary research into religion and representation. Drawing on the disciplines of social, political, and cultural history, literary studies, book history, theology, religious studies, translation studies, and postcolonial studies, they highlight the importance of research that contextualizes the relationship between religion and representation, bringing attention to its historically overlooked aspects.

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Edward Teller: The Real Dr. StrangeloveEdward Teller: The Real Dr. StrangelovePeterGoodchild. 469 pp. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004. Price $29.95 ISBN 0-674-01669-6.

American Journal of Physics ◽

10.1119/1.1949628 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 73 (9) ◽

pp. 893-894

Author(s):

Charles R. Loeber

Keyword(s):

Harvard University ◽

Edward Teller ◽

The Real

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Continental Realism and Its Discontents

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421140.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Continental Philosophy ◽

German Idealism ◽

History Of Philosophy ◽

Human Consciousness ◽

The Real ◽

New Realism ◽

History Of

A new realist movement in continental philosophy has emerged to challenge philosophical approaches and traditions ranging from transcendental and speculative idealism to phenomenology and deconstruction for failing to do justice to the real world as it is ‘in itself’, that is, as independent of the structures of human consciousness, experience, and language. This volume presents a collection of essays that take up the challenge of realism from a variety of historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives. This volume includes essays that engage the fundamental presuppositions and conclusions of this new realism by turning to the writings of seminal figures in the history of philosophy, including Kant, Schelling, and others. Also included are essays that challenge anti-realist readings of Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Nancy. Finally, several essays in this volume propose alternative ways of understanding realism through careful readings of key figures in German idealism, pessimism, phenomenology, existentialism, feminism, and deconstruction.

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