The philosophy of the young Kant : the precritical project / Martin Schönfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schönfeld, Martin (Professor of philosophy), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 348 pages)

Other Title:

Precritical project

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an intellectual biography covering Kant's early uears from 1747 (when he published his first book) to 1770, just before he published his most influential work, The Critique of Pure Reason.

Contents:

Introduction

I: The 1740s: Kant's Starting Point

1 The Vis Viva Debate: Kant's Starting Point

2 The True Estimation of Living Forces: Kant's Theory of Dynamics

3 On the Way toward the Precritical Project

II: The 1750s: The Precritical Project

4 The Conversion to Newton

5 The Universal Natural History: The Purposiveness of Nature

6 The New Elucidation: The Struggle for Freedom

7 The Physical Monadology and the Elements of Nature

III: The 1760s: Climax and Crisis

8 The Only Possible Argument: The Culmination of the Precritical Project

9 The Newtonian Program of the Prize Essay and Kant's Crisis

10 The Reductio and Collapse of the Precritical Project

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-331) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028516-8

1-281-94351-7

9786611943516

0-19-803028-2

OCLC:

123131811