Tag: immanuel-kant
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Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials
The distinctive stake of Eric Watkins’ Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials lies in turning the problem of “Kant’s context” from a diffuse generality into a precise, source-based field in which the semantic, methodological, and polemical options recognized by Kant’s German readership can be reconstructed from the inside. The volume does this by…
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‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History by Immanuel Kant
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History by Immanuel Kant, edited by Pauline Kleingeld and translated by David L. Colclasure, offers one of the most comprehensive and systematically contextualized presentations of Kant’s political writings currently available in English. It is a volume that not only assembles Kant’s most significant interventions in…
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Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling is a landmark analysis of one of the most enigmatic and underexplored dimensions of Kant’s critical philosophy: the faculty of feeling. For centuries, scholars have explored Kant’s faculties of cognition and desire, often side-lining feeling as a residual category, dismissed as mere affectivity unworthy of systematic investigation. This volume…
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Kant’s Life and Thought
Ernst Cassirer’s Kant’s Life and Thought, a seminal philosophical biography and intellectual exploration, bridges a deep understanding of Immanuel Kant’s life with a rigorous analysis of his works. For Cassirer, Kant is not merely a philosopher to be studied but a foundational figure whose ideas mark a historical inflection point in philosophy. In writing this…
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Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense
Daniel Smyth’s Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense offers a deep exploration of Immanuel Kant’s multifaceted conception of intuition, which Smyth presents as not merely a perceptual tool but as a crucial epistemic function that complements and enhances the intellect’s capabilities, filling gaps left by its discursive nature. By delineating intuition’s varieties—divine, receptive, sensible,…
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Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by Theodor W. Adorno
In Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, Theodor W. Adorno gave us a series of lectures on Immanuel Kant’s seminal work, illuminating the philosophical areas that Kant navigated and the critical repercussions of his thought on the trajectory of modern philosophy. Through a close examination of Kant’s epistemology and metaphysics, Adorno seeks to unearth the complexities…
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