{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-companion-to-kant-9781472586780","title":"The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmanuel Kant is widely considered to be the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. His philosophy is extraordinarily wide-ranging and his influence has been pervasive throughout eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century thought, in particular in the work of the German Idealists, and also in both Analytic and Continental philosophy today.Now available as a new and expanded edition in paperback, this accessible companion to Kant features more than 100 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of experts in the field, covering every aspect of his philosophy. \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Companion to Kant \u003c\/i\u003epresents a comprehensive overview of the historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought. It also includes extensive synopses of all his major published works and a survey of the key lines of reception and influence including a new addition on Schopenhauer''s rece\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a tremendously useful volume, including a valuable Introduction and an impressively thorough bibliography, detailed accounts of the individual works, sections on figures of influence, philosophical and historical context, and the reception and influence of Kant to the present, together with an encyclopedia of entries on key themes and topics.\u003cb\u003e It will be of benefit to all interested in Kant on any level.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Professor Richard E. Aquila, University of Tennessee, USA\u003cbr\u003eEschewing the typically lengthy essays written by eminent Kant scholars, this collection is built like a true reference source. It features brief, alphabetical, cross-referenced articles written by dozens of lesser-known scholars on hundreds of core concepts and aimed squarely at novice researchers. -- CHOICE, L.A. Wilkinson, University of Tennesse at Chattanooga, USA\u003cbr\u003eThis handy volume consists of more than one hundred entries from thirty-six authors...The expositions of the main points in Kant’s writings are very extensive (e.g., 17 pages on the Critique of Pure Reason), balanced and precise, and they also place Kant’s works within the contemporary setting in which they originated...The fact that all areas of Kant’s thought are so well integrated across theoretical and practical divisions, and also updated in accordance with recent contributions to Kant scholarship, is a further strength. No doubt, it is the large team of international Kant experts behind the companion, with a broad spectrum of interests and specialities, that has made this feasible. Among these are representatives of a new generation with a fresh approach to key elements in Kant’s philosophy...\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Continuum Companion to Kant\u003c\/i\u003e – with its accessible and inviting style of presentation – is definitely a very welcome addition to the growing body of general guides to Kant’s philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e It accords a uniquely analytic focus to the context of Kant’s views through separate entries that zoom in on specific influences and connections at a very detailed level...wise editorial choices [that] have ensured overall coherence and completeness. -- Kant Studies Online, Frode Kjosavik, University of Oslo, Norway\u003cbr\u003eThis companion provides a solid guide for how to address such work, and understanding such influences (obscure or unknown to most non-specialists) and helps to shed light on certain idiosyncrasies in Kant's writing...\u003cb\u003ethe text provides very strong support with full citations for further research provided\u003c\/b\u003e. For those looking for a bibliography of significant resources relating to Kant, this companion will provide plenty of support...those prepared with some familiarity should find much to engage with and to take up for further engagement. -- Metapsychology Online Reviews, Michael Larson, Point Park University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors Preface Abbreviations of Kant's Works Introduction \u003cb\u003ePart I: Key Writings\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Key Works  The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God \/ The 'Inaugural Dissertation' \/ Critique of Pure Reason \/ Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science \/ Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals \/ Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science \/ Critique of Practical Reason \/ Critique of Judgment \/ Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason \/ Toward Perpetual Peace \/ Metaphysics of Morals \u003cb\u003ePart II: Kant's Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e 2. Philosophical and Historical Context  Academy prize essay \/ Aristotelianism \/ J. A. Eberhard \/ Empiricism \/ Frederick the Great \/ French Revolution \/ Garve-Feder review \/ Herder \/ Francis Hutcheson \/ Königsberg \/ J. H. Lambert \/ Moses Mendelssohn \/ Physical influx \/ Pietism \/ Prussia \/ School Metaphysics \/ Adam Smith \/ Spinoza 3. Sources and Influences  Aristotle \/ Francis Bacon \/ A. Baumgarten \/ Cicero \/ C. A. Crusius \/ Descartes \/ Epicurus and Epicureanism \/ Leonhard Euler \/ Marcus Herz \/ Hume \/ Leibniz \/ Locke \/ G. F. Meier \/ Newton \/ Plato \/ Rousseau \/ Swedenborg \/ J. N. Tetens \/ Wolff \u003cb\u003ePart III: Key Themes and Topics\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Key Themes and Topics \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Reception and Influence \u003c\/b\u003e5. Reception and Influence  Until 1781: Responses to Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation \/ First Responses to the \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e: The 1780s and Later \/ Kantianism in the 1790s: From Reinhold to Hegel \/ Hegel’s Appropriation of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy in the Jena Period  \/ Schopenhauer's Reception of Kant \/ ‘Back to Kant’: Neo-Kantianism \/ Heidegger’s Phenomenological Reading of Kant \/ Analytical Kantianism \/ Analytic Approaches to Kant’s Ethics \/ Kantian Normativity in Rawls, Korsgaard and Continental Practical Philosophy\u003cb\u003e Part V: Bibliography\u003c\/b\u003e 6. 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