HEGELS BREAK WITH KANT - THE LEAP FROM INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY TO SOCIOLOGY

The author calls attention to and discusses certain basic but neglecte d and/or obscured features of Hegel's idealism. He treats these featur es as paradigmatically sociological and uses them as a baseline with w hich to chart Hegel's critique of, and against which to measure, Kant' s Critique of Pure Reason. Section 1 introduces Hegel's criticism of K ant's idealism; in contrast to his own objective idealism, transcenden tal idealism is individualistic. This criticism is elaborated in secti on 2, issuing in the quasi-Wittgensteinian indictment that Kant cannot account for the possibility of language and human thought. Section 3 argues that Hegel's criticism that mind is social and that objectivity cannot be understood in isolation from social interaction amounts to a sociological critique of Kant.