Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization
Title | Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Marta González |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 111 |
Release | 2021-03-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3030664686 |
This book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant’s empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization. The book will be of special interest for Kantian scholars, moral and political philosophers, as well as philosophers of culture.
Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment
Title | Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Katerina Deligiorgi |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0791483142 |
Katerina Deligiorgi interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason. Analyzing a broad range of Kant's works, including his Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Judgment, his lectures on anthropology and logic, as well as his shorter essays, she identifies the theoretical and practical commitments that show the achievement of rational autonomy as an ongoing project for the realization of a culture of enlightenment. Deligiorgi also considers Kant's ideas in relation to the work of Diderot, Rousseau, Mendelssohn, Reinhold, Hamann, Schiller, and Herder. The perspective opened by this historical dialogue challenges twentieth-century revisionist interpretations of the Enlightenment to show that the "culture of enlightenment" is not simply a fragment of our intellectual history but rather a live project.
Kant's Human Being
Title | Kant's Human Being PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Louden |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2011-07-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199877580 |
In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, "What is the human being" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings. Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature.
Kant's Lectures on Anthropology
Title | Kant's Lectures on Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | Alix Cohen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107024919 |
This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.
The Space of Culture
Title | The Space of Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Luft |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191059099 |
Sebastian Luft presents and defends the philosophy of culture championed by the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism. Following a historical trajectory from Hermann Cohen to Paul Natorp and through to Ernst Cassirer, this book makes a systematic case for the viability and attractiveness of a philosophical culture in a transcendental vein, in the manner in which the Marburgers intended to broaden Kant's approach. In providing a philosophical study of culture, Luft adheres to important Kantian tenets while addressing empirical studies of culture. The Space of Culture culminates in an exploration of Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, and argues for the extent to which Cassirer's thought was firmly rooted in the Marburg School, despite his originality. At the same time, it shows how Cassirer opened up the philosophical study of culture to new horizons, making it attractive for contemporary philosophy.
Culture as Mediation
Title | Culture as Mediation PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Marta González |
Publisher | |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Culture |
ISBN | 9783487145532 |
Kant on Practical Life
Title | Kant on Practical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Kristi E. Sweet |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107037239 |
This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's practical philosophy that highlights the unity across its disparate themes.