The Cambridge companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason / edited by Paul Guyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guyer, Paul, 1948-

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

xiv, 461 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"Immanuel Kant's Critique of pure reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. In this massive work, Kant has three aims. First, he constructs a new theory of knowledge that delivers certainty about the fundamental principles of human experience at the cost of knowledge of how things are in themselves. Second, he delivers a devastating critique of traditional "speculative" metaphysics on the basis of his new theory of knowledge. Third, he suggests how the core beliefs of the Western metaphysical tradition that cannot be justified as theoretical knowledge can, nevertheless, be justified as objects of "moral faith" because they are the necessary conditions of the possibility of moral agency. Kant started this third project in the Critique of Pure Reason but would go on to complete it in two other works, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of the Power of Judgment. The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason is the first collective commentary on this work in English. The seventeen chapters have been written by an international team of scholars, including some of the best-known figures in the field as well as emerging younger talents. The first two chapters situate Kant's project against the background of Continental rationalism and British empiricism, the dominant schools of early modern philosophy. Eleven chapters then expound and assess all the main arguments of the Critique. Finally, four chapters recount the enormous influence of the Critique on subsequent philosophical movements, including German idealism and neo-Kantianism, twentieth-century Continental philosophy, and twentieth century Anglo-American analytic philosophy. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason is the first collective commentary on this work in English. The seventeen chapters have been written by an international team of scholars, including some of the best-known figures in the field as well as emerging younger talents. The first two chapters situate Kant's project against the background of Continental rationalism and British empiricism, the dominant schools of early modern philosophy. Eleven chapters then expound and assess all the main arguments of the Critique. Finally, four chapters recount the enormous influence of the Critique on subsequent philosophical movements, including German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, twentieth-century Continental philosophy, and twentieth century Anglo-American analytic philosophy. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Background to the Critique

Kant's Copernican turn and the rationalist tradition / Desmond Hogan

Kant, the empiricists, and the enterprise of deduction / Kenneth P. Winkler

The Arguments of the Critique

The introduction to the Critique: framing the question / R. Lanier Anderson

The transcendental aesthetic / Lisa Shabel

The deduction of categories: the metaphysical and transcendental deductions / Paul Guyer

The system of principles / Eric Watkins

The refutation of idealism and the distinction between phenomena and noumena / Dina Edmundts

The ideas of pure reason / Michael Rohlf

The paralogisms of pure reason / Julian Wuerth

The antinomies of pure reason / Allen W. Wood

The ideal of pure reason / Michelle Grier

The appendix to the dialectic and the canon of pure reason: the positive role of reason / Frederick Rauscher

The transcendental doctrine of method / A.W. Moore

The impact of the Critique

The reception of the Critique of pure reason in German idealism / Rolf-Peter Horstmann

The 'transcendental method': on the reception of the Critique of pure reason in neo-Kantianism / Konstantin Pollok

The Critique of pure reason and Continental philosophy: Heidegger's interpretation of transcendental imagination / Daniel Dahlstrom

The Critique of pure reason and analytic philosophy / Kenneth R. Westphal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521883863

0521883865

0521710111

9780521710114

OCLC:

565478230

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