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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing a sense of the complex intellectual and historical context in which Kant functioned,
Constituting Critique calls attention to the concern with language that pervades not just the three
Critiques, but the earlier writings as well."—Samuel Weber, University of California, Los Angeles
"This is a study that anyone seriously interested in Kant will have to take into account. Goetschel’s writing is intellectually compelling. His interpretation enriches our understanding of Kant, bridging the gap between the literary and systematic aspects of Kant’s writing."—Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Princeton University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Project Career Trajectory 15
2. Cosmological Family Romance 23
3. Short Essays 37
4. System Crisis 43
5. Observation as Indirect Literary Strategy 58
6. Wit as a Formal Principle 79
7. Double Satire and Double Irony 89
8. Toward the Form of Critique 115
9. Publicizing Enlightenment: Kant's Concept of Enlightenment 144
Bibliographic Essay 167
Notes 187
Bibliography 225
Index 237
