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Kant's elliptical path / Karl Ameriks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ameriks, Karl, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der praktischen Vernunft.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Metaphysics.
- Idealism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the main stages and key concepts in the development of Kant's critical philosophy, from the early 1760s to the 1790s. Karl Ameriks provides a detailed and concise account of the main ways in which the later critical works provide a plausible defense of the conception of humanity's fundamental end that Kant turned to after reading Rousseau in the 1760s. Separate essays are devoted to each of the three Critiques, as well as to earlier notes and lectures and several of Kant's later writings on history and religion. A final section devotes three chapters to post-Kantian developments in German Romanticism, accounts of tragedy up through Nietzsche, and contemporary philosophy. The theme of an elliptical path is shown to be relevant to these writers as well as to many aspects of Kant's own life and work. The topics of the book include fundamental issues in epistemology and metaphysics, with a new defense of the Amerik's 'moderate' interpretation of transcendental idealism.
- Contents:
- part I. Before the critiques : Kant's uncovering of our fundamental end
- part II. The critiques as a defense of a return to our fundamental end
- part III. After the critiques : extensions of, and alternatives to, Kant's elliptical path.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-358) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-969369-2
- 0-19-174558-8
- 0-19-165533-3
- OCLC:
- 922972768
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