Kant's lectures on anthropology : a critical guide / edited by Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Alix, 1976- editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical guides.

Cambridge critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht.

Philosophical anthropology.

Philosophy of mind.

Psychology.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant's account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism. The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, the history of anthropology, the philosophy of psychology and the social sciences.

Contents:

Kant's lectures on anthropology : some orienting remarks / Werner Stark

Self-cognition and self-assessment / Rudolf A. Makkreel

Kant on the phenomenology of touch and vision / Gary Hatfield

Meat on the bones : Kant's account of cognition in the anthropology lectures / Tim Jankowiak and Eric Watkins

The anthropology of cognition and its pragmatic implications / Alix Cohen

Affects and passions / Patrick R. Frierson

The inclination toward freedom / Paul Guyer

Empirical desire / Allen W. Wood

Kant as "vitalist" : the "principium of life" in Anthropologie Friedländer / Susan Meld Shell

Indispensable education of the being of reason and speech / G. Felicitas Munzel

Kant on civilization, culture and moralisation / Catherine Wilson

Cosmpolitical unity : the final destiny of the human species / Robert B. Louden

What a young man needs for his venture into the world : the function and evolution of the "Characteristics" / John H. Zammito.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-18886-8

1-316-21104-5

1-316-19072-2

1-316-62154-5

1-316-20918-0

1-316-20551-7

1-139-17617-X

1-316-20181-3

1-316-20732-3

1-316-20368-9