Goodbye, Kant! : What Still Stands of the Critique of Pure Reason / Maurizio Ferraris ; translated by Richard Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferraris, Maurizio, 1956-

Contributor:

Davies, Richard (Richard Brian), 1944- translator.

Series:

SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy

Standardized Title:

Goodbye, Kant! English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Kant, Immanuel.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A best seller in Italy, Maurizio Ferraris's Goodbye, Kant! delivers a nontechnical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent overview of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. He borrows his title from Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye Lenin!, the 2003 film about East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which depicts both relief at the passing of the Soviet era and affection for the ideals it embodied. Ferraris approaches Kant in similar spirits, demonstrating how the structure that Kant elaborates for the understanding of human knowledge can generate nostalgia for lost aspirations, while still leaving room for constructive criticism. Isolating key themes and concerns in the work, Ferraris evaluates Kant's claims relative to what science and philosophy have come to regard as the conditions for knowledge and experience in the intervening two centuries. He remains attentive to the historical context and ideals from which Kant's Critique emerged but also resolute in identifying what he sees as the limits and blind spots in the work. The result is an accessible account of a notoriously difficult book that will both provoke experts and introduce students to the work and to these important philosophical debates about the relations of experience to science.

Contents:

""The scheme of the work """"The metaphysics of experience ""; ""Five ontological theses ""; ""Two epistemological theses ""; ""Where to find them ""; ""3. What is inherited (Examination) ""; ""New wine in old bottles ""; ""Kant�s metaphysics""; ""The models of the Critique of Pure Reason ""

""The naturalization of physics """"Consequences ""; ""4. What is novel (Examination) ""; ""Kant and the platypus ""; ""Phenomenon and noumenon ""; ""Deduction, schematism, and imagination""; ""The hundred thalers ""; ""Synthetic a priori judgments ""; ""Are synthetic a priori judgments possible? ""

""Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism """"5. The Transcendental Fallacy (Examination) ""; ""A semi-catastrophe ""; ""The purloined letter ""; ""A mind-dependent world ""; ""An avoidable fallacy ""; ""6. Conceptual Schemes and Phenomena ""; ""Over-powerful spectacles ""

""The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes """"Are intuitions without concepts blind? ""; ""Are concepts without intuitions empty? ""; ""The Thesis of the Phenomena ""; ""7. Space and Time ""; ""What is the Transcendental Aesthetic? ""; ""Space ""; ""Time ""; ""The meaning of mathematization ""

""8. Self, Substance, and Cause""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781461951391

1461951399

9781438448107

1438448104

OCLC:

864552171