Kant and the Subject of Critique
Title | Kant and the Subject of Critique PDF eBook |
Author | Avery Goldman |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2012-03-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 025300540X |
Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for Kant, a reflective act must take place before any judgment occurs. Building on Kant's metaphysics, which uses the soul, the world, and God as regulative principles, Goldman demonstrates how Kant can open doors to reflection, analysis, language, sensibility, and understanding. By establishing a regulative self, Goldman offers a way to bring unity to the subject through Kant's seemingly circular reasoning, allowing for critique and, ultimately, knowledge.
Kant and the Spirit of Critique
Title | Kant and the Spirit of Critique PDF eBook |
Author | John Sallis |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0253049814 |
This volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant's three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. Sallis displays here, as he does in all his lecture courses, an uncanny ability to open up dense philosophical texts. The matters Kant deals with—in theoretical, practical, and aesthetic philosophy—are difficult in themselves, and Kant's writings might at times seem so convoluted as to magnify the difficulty. Sallis patiently and successfully lays out the issues and the critical approach to them, such that the reader is led step by step into the very core of Kant's spirit of critique. This volume makes Kant accessible to students, while the most advanced scholars will also profit from it.
Kant's Critique of Spinoza
Title | Kant's Critique of Spinoza PDF eBook |
Author | Omri Boehm |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199354804 |
Contemporary philosophers frequently assume that Kant never seriously engaged with Spinoza or Spinozism-certainly not before the break of Der Pantheismusstreit, or within the Critique of Pure Reason. Offering an alternative reading of key pre-critical texts and to some of the Critique's most central chapters, Omri Boehm challenges this common assumption. He argues that Kant not only is committed to Spinozism in early essays such as "The One Possible Basis" and "New Elucidation," but also takes up Spinozist metaphysics as Transcendental Realism's most consistent form in the Critique of Pure Reason. The success -- or failure -- of Kant's critical projects must be evaluated in this light. Boehm here examines The Antinomies alongside Spinoza's Substance Monism and his theory of freedom. Similarly, he analyzes the refutation of the Ontological Argument in parallel with Spinoza's Causa-sui. More generally, Boehm places the Critique of Pure Reason's separation of Thought from Being and Is from Ought in dialogue with the Ethics' collapse of Being, Is and Ought into Thought.
Goodbye, Kant!
Title | Goodbye, Kant! PDF eBook |
Author | Maurizio Ferraris |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2013-10-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438448104 |
A best seller in Italy, Maurizio Ferraris's Goodbye, Kant! delivers a nontechnical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent overview of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. He borrows his title from Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye Lenin!, the 2003 film about East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which depicts both relief at the passing of the Soviet era and affection for the ideals it embodied. Ferraris approaches Kant in similar spirits, demonstrating how the structure that Kant elaborates for the understanding of human knowledge can generate nostalgia for lost aspirations, while still leaving room for constructive criticism. Isolating key themes and concerns in the work, Ferraris evaluates Kant's claims relative to what science and philosophy have come to regard as the conditions for knowledge and experience in the intervening two centuries. He remains attentive to the historical context and ideals from which Kant's Critique emerged but also resolute in identifying what he sees as the limits and blind spots in the work. The result is an accessible account of a notoriously difficult book that will both provoke experts and introduce students to the work and to these important philosophical debates about the relations of experience to science.
Hegel's Critique of Kant
Title | Hegel's Critique of Kant PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Sedgwick |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199698368 |
Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel's critique of Kant's theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of cognition that Kant defended in his 'Critical' period, and explores Hegel's claim to derive from Kantian doctrines clues to a superior form of idealism.
Necessity and Possibility
Title | Necessity and Possibility PDF eBook |
Author | Kurt Mosser |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0813215323 |
Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.
Kant's ‘Critique of Pure Reason'
Title | Kant's ‘Critique of Pure Reason' PDF eBook |
Author | James R. O'Shea |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2017-06-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107074819 |
This Critical Guide provides succinct and in-depth explorations of cutting-edge debates concerning the philosophical significance of Kant's revolutionary Critique of Pure Reason.