Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal Orientation 1
4. PART I. KANT ON PROGRESS
5. Chapter 1. Kant on Individual Moral Progress 19
6. Chapter 2. Should We Believe in Moral Progress? 30
7. Chapter 3. Respect, Moral Progress, and Imperfect Duty 47
8. Chapter 4. Loneliness and Ambiguity in Kant’s Philosophy of History 62
9. Chapter 5. Kant’s Organic Religion: God, Teleology, and Progress in the Third Critique 77
10. Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of Culture 94
11. Chapter 7. Kant as Soothsayer: The Problem of Progress and the “Sign” of History 115
12. PART II. PROGRESS AFTER KANT
13. Chapter 8. History, Progress, and Autonomy: Kant, Herder, and After 137
14. Chapter 9. Language, Embodiment, and the Supersensuous in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation 153
15. Chapter 10. Hegel on the Conceptual Form of Philosophical History 165
16. Chapter 11. Relocating the Highest Good: Kierkegaard on God, Virtue, and (This- Worldly) Happiness 185
17. Chapter 12. Kant and Benjamin on Hope, History, and the Task of Interpretation 202
18. Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of Progress 217
19. Notes 233
20. List of Contributors 283
21. Index 287
22. Acknowledgments 293