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HENRICH, Dieter. Between Kant and Hegel. Edited by David S. Pacini. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. lix + 341 pp. Cloth, $55.00-Dieter Henrich's Between Kant and Hegel is one of those rare scholarly works by which others are, and will be, judged, just as Henrich's scholarship more generally provides a standard by which others in the area of German Idealism have been judged for no less than thirty years. David Pacini's foreward, then, otherwise exemplary, likely overstates the degree to which Henrich's "forgotten" (p. xiii) Harvard lectures required "recovery" (p. xi). One might suggest instead that these lectures, and Henrich's contribution more generally, have never been lost, and indeed that Anglophone scholarship finds its own way along interpretive paths already indicated by Henrich. (Few critical works have had an influence on Forschung equal to, for example, The Proof Structure of Kant's Transcendental Deduction, which appeared in this journal in 1969.)
The title already announces Henrich's methodological reorientation, from the trajectory von Kant bis Hegel, to a constellation of post-Kantian theoretical philosophies comprehended as "three comparable and competing positions [those of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel] that cannot be reduced to each other" (p. 9). Chapters 1 through 3 provide the context for the later content of the work by introducing the theme of the formal interdependence of mind and world, of "internal experience" and our experience of a law-governed world external to us. This co-relation Henrich understands as fundamental to both Kant's own and post-Kantian philosophy, theoretical and practical (p. 20). Henrich takes...