Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics / by O. Bradley Bassler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bassler, O. Bradley., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Metaphysics.

Poetry.

Poetry and Poetics.

Local Subjects:

Aesthetics.

Metaphysics.

Poetry and Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique, or paraphysics, as a model for future philosophical endeavor. This philosophical practice is rooted in the concept of the indefinite power associated with the sublime in both Kant and Shelley's work, to which the notion of the parafinite or indefinitely large is extended in this book.

Contents:

1. From Imagination to the Parafinite

2. The Parafinite and Self-Positioning

3. Principles and Categories From Leibniz to Peirce in Five Easy Steps

4. Spotlight on Mathematics

5. Adjunction and Relocation

6. Shelley's Vision

7. Conclusion

Index.

ISBN:

9783319772912

3319772910