The linguistic dimension of Kant's thought : historical and critical essays / edited by Frank Schalow and Richard Velkley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schalow, Frank, 1956- editor.

Velkley, Richard L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Among modern philosophers, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has few rivals in his influence over the development of contemporary philosophy as a whole. However, while the issue of language has become a key fulcrum of continental philosophy since the twentieth century, Kant has been overlooked as a thinker whose breadth of insight helped to spearhead this advance. The Linguistic Dimension of Kant's Thought remedies this historical gap by gathering new essays by distinguished Kant scholars who examine the many ways that Kant's philosophy addresses the nature of language. Although language as a formal structure of thought and expression has always been part of the philosophical tradition, the linguistic dimension of these essays speaks to language more broadly as a practice including communication, exchange, and dialogue. Book jacket.

Contents:

The place of language : from Kant to Hegel / Robert Wood

The language of time in Kant's transcendental schematism / Frank Schalow

Language in Kant's practical philosophy / Chris W. Surprenant

Kant's philosophy of language? / Michael N. Forster

Jupiter's eagle and the despot's hand mill : two views of metaphor in Kant / Kirk Pillow

Models and "symbolic hypotyposis" : Kant on music and language / Charles Nussbaum

Kant's apophaticism of finitude : a grammar of hope for speaking humanly of God / Philip J. Rossi, S.J

Nachschrift eines Freundes : Kant on language, friendship, and the concept of a people / Susan Shell

Reason, idealism, and the category : Kantian language in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit / Robert Berman

The language of natural silence : Schelling and the poetic word after Kant / Jason M. Wirth

Language, psychology, the feeling of life in Kant and Dilthey / Eric S. Nelson

The inexhaustibility of art and the conditions of language : Kant and Heidegger / Richard Velkley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810129962

0810129965

OCLC:

862589896