Kant's critique of pure reason : an orientation to the central theme / Anthony Savile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savile, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

This searching orientation to Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason presents the central theme, the development of his Transcendental Idealism, as a response to perceived weaknesses in his predecessors' accounts of experiential knowledge. Anthony Savile offers lucid new readings of the central arguments in both the Transcendental Aesthetic and the Transcendental Analytic, making clear the fundamental systematic components of Kant 's vision .The book appraises the success and the failure of Kant 's overall critical project. It shows how, for all its merits and despite Kant's departure from previous ways of thinking, he was still unhappily in thrall to some of their key assumptions, and how this ultimately wrecked his attempts to institute a 'Copernican Revolution '.As far as possible, the author engages directly with Kant 's ideas and those of his predecessors, independently of the enormous secondary literature that surrounds the Critique.

Contents:

Historical prelude

Sensibility, space and time

Experience and judgment : the metaphysical deduction

Understanding, objectivity and self-consciousness : the transcendental deduction

The principles of pure understanding

Cognitive rewards : the refutation of idealism, the self and others

Appreciation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-144) and index.

ISBN:

1405120401

140512041X

OCLC:

56370743

Publisher Number:

9781405120401 (hbk. : alk. paper)

9781405120418 (pbk. : alk. paper)