Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly: The Modern Religion of Conscience

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n o t e s prologue: the looking glass religion 1. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. from 2d ed. Garrett Barden and John Cumming (New York: Seabury, 1975); H. G. Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics, trans. and ed. David E. Linge (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976). 2. By the ‘‘Hobbesian-Rousseauian-Kantian’’ outlooks, I have in mind the shared structural features of their accounts that proceed from ‘ordinary consciousness ’ and discern a depth structure in terms of which such consciousness is possible. I do not, of course, want to suggest that their outlooks are identical. 3. Immanuel Kant, AA 10:177; Cor, 153. 4. Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, 2d ed., rev., vol. 7 of Theory and History of Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983). 5. Gordon D. Kaufman, In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993); Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). 6. Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, trans. Tom Conley (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988). 1. unscaffolding religious ‘‘madness’’ 1. I. Kant, AA 10:177; Cor, 152. 2. I. Kant, AA 10:179; Cor, 154. 3. I. Kant, AA 10:176–77; Cor, 152–53. 4. I. Kant, AA 10:176; Cor, 152. 5. I. Kant, AA 10:177; Cor, 152–53. 6. I. Kant, AA 8:41; QeE, 21. 7. Leszek Kolakowski, ‘‘Modernity on Endless Trial,’’ in Modernity on Endless Trial (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 3. 8. I. Kant, AA 4:Axi; AA 4:Axi, n; CPR, 100. 189 190 Notes to pages 23–34 9. R. Rorty, Contingency, 3. 10. My wording echoes Lewis White Beck’s adroit reprisal, ‘‘The Critique seems to be suspended from nothing in heaven and supported by nothing on earth,’’ and Robert Pippin’s cleverly inverted rephrasing—‘‘supported by nothing on earth and suspended from nothing in heaven’’—of Kant’s own claim in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. See Lewis White Beck, Essays on Kant and Hume (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978), 30; and Robert B. Pippin, Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, 2d ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 54. 11. I. Kant, AA 4:425; G, 77. 12. I. Kant, AA 3:B760–80; CPR, 640–50. 13. Salomon Maimon, Versuch über die Transcendental Philosophie, in Gesammelte Werke, ed. V. Verra (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1965–1971); Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus, Ein Gespräch (Breslau: Gottl. Löwe, 1787); L. W. Beck, Essays; R. B. Pippin, Modernism. 14. I. Kant, AA 4:Ax; CPR, 100. 15. I. Kant, AA 29:940; LM, 286. 16. I. Kant, AA 4:Axii; CPR, 101. 17. Dieter Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism, ed. David S. Pacini (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), 33. 18. I. Kant, AA 4:Avii–viii; CPR, 99. 19. I. Kant, AA 3:B154; CPR, 258. 20. I. Kant, AA 7:134n; A, 23n19. 21. I. Kant, AA 3:B134n, B135; CPR, 247n, 248. 22. I. Kant, AA 8:35; QeE, 17. 23. I. Kant, AA 8:35; QeE, 17. 24. I. Kant, AA 4:446–63; G, 94–108. 25. I. Kant, AA 3:Bxiii; CPR, 109. 26. I. Kant, AA 5:31; CPrR, 164. 27. I. Kant, AA 5:74ff; CPrR, 200–211. 28. I. Kant, AA 5:119; CPrR, 236. 29. I. Kant, AA 20:144. 30. Manfred Kuehn, Kant: A Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 71. 31. Ibid; see also Frederick C. Beiser, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987). 32. Howard Caygill, ‘‘No Man’s Land: Reading Kant Historically,’’ Radical Philosophy 110 (November–December 2001): 31. 33. I. Kant, AA 8:144; O, 16. 34. I. Kant, AA 8:145; O, 16. 35. I. Kant, AA 8:145; O, 16. 36. I. Kant, AA 6:26–28; Rel, 74–76. Notes to pages 34–41 191 37. I. Kant, AA 6:21n; Rel, 71n. 38. I. Kant, AA 6:48; Rel, 92. 39. I. Kant, AA 6:21; Rel, 71. 40. I. Kant, AA 4:408; G, 62. 41. I. Kant, AA 4:425; G, 77. 42. I. Kant, AA 20:45. 43. I. Kant, AA 3:B779; CPR, 649. 44...