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This volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant's three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. Sallis displays here, as he does in all his lecture courses, an uncanny ability to open up dense philosophical texts. The matters Kant deals with—in theoretical, practical, and aesthetic philosophy—are difficult in themselves, and Kant's writings might at times seem so convoluted as to magnify the difficulty. Sallis patiently and successfully lays out the issues and the critical approach to them, such that the reader is led step by step into the very core of Kant's spirit of critique. This volume makes Kant accessible to students, while the most advanced scholars will also profit from it.

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Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it virtually haunts contemporary philosophy from epistemology to ethical theory. Yet if this book is right, the full import of Hegel's critique of Kant has not been understood. Working from Hegel's mature texts (after 1807) and reading them in light of an overall interpretation of Hegel's project as a linguistic, "definitional" system, the book offers major reinterpretations of Hegel's views: The Kantian thing-in-itself is not denied but relocated as a temporal aspect of our experience. Hegel's linguistic idealism is understood in terms of his realistic view of sensation. Instead of claiming that Kant's categorical imperative is too empty to provide concrete moral guidance, Hegel praises its emptiness as the foundation for a diverse society.

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This book intends to show that we should re-think and re-evaluate our dogmatic commitment to a cognitivistic attitude. Our high regard for knowledge is due to the fact that we expect that it will help us satisfy not only our practical needs but also guide us toward a meaningful and fulfilled life. A careful examination of the nature and limits of knowledge reveals that both expectations cannot be satisfied. Following Kant, Cicovacki comes to the conclusion that, although our knowledge of reality seems to be reliable and true, at the same time it seems to be one-sided and very narrowly oriented. Our practical purposes seem to be served quite well, but it is dubious whether our knowledge helps us understand and find our own place and role in reality. Those pursuing science and analytic philosophy do not seem to realize that our knowledge of reality is at the same time reliable and true, and yet distorting and damaging. Cicovacki focuses on Kant's question: ^D< "What is man?" as the ultimate question of philosophy. He invites a new interpretation of Kant since the question indicates that, for Kant, a broadly construed philosophical anthropology, rather than metaphysics, or epistemology, or ethics, is the most fundamental philosophical discipline. "The real philosopher," Kant tells us, is "the teacher of wisdom through doctrine and example." Contents: Prelude; PART I: A Knowledge of Knowledge; The Epistemological Project; Cognition, Recognition, and Cognitive Interest; Concepts as Rules; Concepts as Norms; PART II: A Knowledge of Ignorance; Striving for Truth: The Problem of Criterion; Dreams and Reality: On the Existential Presupposition of Cognitive Experience; The Real and the Preceived; Healing the Wound; Bibliography; Index.

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Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Kant's account of causation is central to his views on objective truth and freedom. The Second Analogy of Experience, in the Critique of Pure Reason,where he provides his defense of the causal principle, has long been the focus of intense philosophical research. In the past twenty years, there have been two major periods of interest in Kantian themes, The first coincided with a general turn away from positivism by analytic philosophers, and resulted in a fruitful interchange between Kant scholars and those who applied Kantian ideas to contemporary philosophical problems. In recent years, a new surge of interest in Kant's work occurred along with the developing controversy over realism generated by the work of Dummett and Putnam. Scholars now appreciate the extent to which the Kantian causal principle is illuminated by the philosopher's argument that his transcendental idealism supports an empirical realism. And in turn, Kant's views on objectivity, causation, and freedom are especially relevant to the philosophical concerns raised by the new debate over realism. The eight papers in this book are drawn from two conferences that honored Lewis White Beck, an influential Kant scholar. Together with the introductory essay by the editors, they show the continuing relevance of Kant's analysis for the present-day philosophy of causation.

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Como reza la contracubierta del libro, el lector encontrará en este James Boswell visita al profesor Kant un pasaje del Diario de Boswell hasta ahora desconocido, encontrado en el Castillo de Balmeanach, en la Isla de Muck, Hébridas Interiores , preparado para la imprenta por un caballero, y publicado con permiso del propietario del manuscrito, el difunto Señor de Muck. Pero también una exquisita edición bilingüe, traducida por Miguel Martínez-Lage, Premio Nacional de Traducción en 2008 por su versión de Vida de Samuel Johnson, de James Boswell, publicada en Acantilado.

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Kant confronta su pensamiento con el de Aristóteles en cuestiones fundamentales. Aunque elogia al Estagirita, el examen de sus doctrinas le lleva a resultados cuando menos sorprendentes. Juzga que la formulación que ofrece Aristóteles del principio de contradicción es en el fondo "contraria a la intención misma del principio". Califica de "falsa sutileza" la doctrina aristotélica de las figuras del silogismo. Considera que el elenco de categorías que nos ha legado el filósofo griego como parte esencial de su metafísica resulta, por su carencia de orden y sus deficiencias, "completamente inútil". Y rechaza, en fin, incluir el principio del "justo medio", por el que los antiguos otorgaron a Aristóteles el título de filósofo moral por excelencia, en la clasificación de los principios supremos de la moralidad, al entender que solo ofrece "una sabiduría insípida". Qué razones mueven a Kant en cada caso a juzgar tan duramente estas enseñanzas de Aristóteles? Son justos los juicios de Kant so

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The past two decades have seen renewed scholarly and popular interest in the law and morality of war. Positions that originated in the late Middle Ages through the seventeenth century have received more sophisticated philosophical elaboration. Although many contemporary writers appeal to ideas drawn from Kant's moral philosophy, his explicit discussions of war have not yet been brought into their proper place in these debates. Ripstein argues that a special morality governs war because of its distinctive immorality: the wrongfulness of entering or remaining in a condition in which force decides everything provides the standards for evaluating the grounds of initiating war, the ways in which wars are fought, and the results of past wars. The book is a major intervention into just war theory from the most influential contemporary interpreter and exponent of Kant's political and legal theories. Beginning from the difference between governing human affairs through words and through force, Ripstein articulates a Kantian account of the state as a public legal order in which all uses of force are brought under law. Against this background, he provides innovative accounts of the right of national defence, the importance of conducting war in ways that preserve the possibility of a future peace, and the distinctive role of international institutions in bringing force under law.

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Immanuel Kant is often referred to as the 'philosopher of Protestantism' because he provides a model for mediating successfully between a modern scientific world view and theism. This radical new reading of Kant's religious thought suggests that he is in fact more accurately read as a precursor to nineteenth-century atheism than to liberal Protestant theology.

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Is freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self-mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, an other that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible otherness that at once exceeds it and animates its core. Tracing Kant’s concept of freedom from the Critique of Pure Reason to his practical works, Basterra elaborates his most revolutionary insights by setting them in dialogue with Levinas’s Otherwise than Being. Levinas’s text, she argues, offers a deep critique of Kant that follows the impulse of his thinking to its most promising consequences. The complex concepts of freedom, autonomy, and subjectivity that emerge from this dialogue have the potential to energize today’s ethical and political thinking.

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Kant on Sublimity and Morality provides an argument to the essential moral significance of the Kantian sublime and situates this argument within the history of the relationship between sublimity and morality.

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Alain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series on “the One” is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no “One”: there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.What is novel in Badiou’s view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of things—yet, as he observes, it often is taken to “count as one” operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between “the One” and “counting as one” emerges as essential to Badiou’s ontological project. His analysis of reflections on oneness in Descartes, Plato, and Kant prefigures core arguments of his defining work, Being and Event.Showcasing the seeds of Badiou’s key ideas and later thought, The One features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.

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Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by his deep engagement with the critical theory of Walter Benjamin, who especially developed this Kantian strain of thinking, Kevin McLaughlin uses this theory of force to illuminate the work of three of the most influential nineteenth-century writers in their respective national traditions: Friedrich Hölderlin, Charles Baudelaire, and Matthew Arnold. The result is a fine elucidation of Kantian theory and a fresh account of poetic language and its aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities.

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The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant's writings.

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Encuadernación: RústicaEs el mundo un cosmos o un caos? Tiene sentido la historia humana? Y si lo tiene, cuál es? Es el hombre lire y responsable de sus actos o un simple fragmento del universo determinado por las rígidas leyes de la naturaleza? Puede darnos certezas la ciencia? Qué es la verdad? Cuáles son los fundamentos de la democracia?La historia de la filosofía es la historia de los problemas filosóficos, de las teorías filosóficas y de las argumentaciones filosóficas. Es la historia de los intentos siempre nuevos de plantear cuestiones con la esperanza de poder saber cada vez más sobre nosotros mismos y de hallar orientaciones para nuestra vida.Giovanni Reale y Dario Antiseri, inspirándose en criterios epistemológicos y pedagógicos, ofrecen en esta obra una exposición poderosamente didáctica de la historia de la filosofía: a la exposición analítica de los problemas y de las ideas de los diferentes filósofos anteponen una síntesis de las ideas tratadas, concebida como un

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Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori is a close study of Kant’s conception of metaphysical propositions. In it Moltke Gram aims to show in what sense Kant is offering a theory of metaphysical propositions about objects in general. Gram presents a criticism of the tendency to focus on Kant’s theory of dialectic as the source of paradigm cases of metaphysical propositions.

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God is a problematic idea in Kant's terms, but many scholars continue to be interested in Kantian theories of religion and the issues that they raise. In these new essays, scholars both within and outside Kant studies analyse Kant's writings and his claims about natural, philosophical, and revealed theology. Topics debated include arguments for the existence of God, natural theology, redemption, divine action, miracles, revelation, and life after death. The volume includes careful examination of key Kantian texts alongside discussion of their themes from both constructive and analytic perspectives. These contributions broaden the scope of the scholarship on Kant, exploring the value of doing theology in consonance or conversation with Kant. It builds bridges across divides that often separate the analytic from the continental and the philosophical from the theological. The resulting volume clarifies the significance and relevance of Kant's theology for current debates about the philosophy of God and religion.

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Descripción:20x13 cm.Encuadernación: cartoné.Colección: BAC,371.Con este cuarto volumen la BAC pone en manos de sus lectores un estudio amplio, profundo y sistemático de las grandes corrientes de pensamiento que protagonizaron el quehacer filosófico en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. En esta época asistimos a la formación de los gran-des sistemas de la filosofía moderna. En Kant confluyen y son, al tiempo, profunda y originalmente reelaborados los temas fundamentales del pensamiento filosófico anterior. La revolución copernicana que el idealismo trascendental inaugura lleva a su consumación la orientación subjetivista y antropocéntrica del pensar moderno; así, toda una visión de la realidad ?ámbito hasta entonces del espíritu antiguo y tradicional de Occidente? es rechazada como secular ensueño metafísico. Apoyándose en Kant, profundizando los cauces abiertos por él, el idealismo absoluto intenta romper el cerco impuesto a la metafísica por la Crítica de la razón pura. Ficht

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'Los últimos días de Immanuel Kant' sigue siendo uno de los textos más singulares y elaborados de Thomas de Quincey. Gracias en buena medida a las memorias firmadas por Ehregott Wasianski, el ensayista inglés pudo prestar sus palabras al fiel amigo de Kant y relatar los últimos momentos del célebre filósofo ilustrado. Siguiendo antojadizamente el flujo de los acontecimientos, De Quincey nos da cuenta en sus páginas de las preocupaciones que invaden ahora a ese pobre espíritu en otro tiempo brillante. Atrapado por su vejez y por sus problemas de salud, el filósofo aparece retratado como un hombre agotado y enfermo. Sus pérdidas de memoria y de equilibrio afligen a Wasianski, que intenta por todos los medios hacer su vida más llevadera hasta el último aliento. No hay que perder de vista, sin embargo, que, aunapoyándose en los testimonios de algunos de sus coetáneos, lo que De Quincey pone ante el lector es una obra de no ficción especulativa, sujeta a intromisiones discursivas y a su

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Zur protestantischen Theologie gehört konstitutiv ihr Bibelbezug. Zugleich sind Stellung und Methodik der Bibelauslegung in der Theologie seit jeher und auch gegenwärtig sehr umstritten. Die Geschichte der modernen Bibelexegese ist unzertrennlich mit dem Namen Immanuel Kants verknüpft. Dessen religionsphilosophischer Zugriff auf die Bibel und das zugehörige Programm einer philosophischen Theologie sind daher Gegenstand vielfältiger kritischer wie affirmativer Studien. Erstmals liegt hier ein diskursiver Überblick über die Problematik vor, der sowohl Kants bibelhermeneutisches Programm als auch dessen dogmatische Konsequenzen auf dem gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand einer intensiven Sichtung unterzieht. Renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren aus Bibelwissenschaften und Systematischer Theologie nehmen historisch, rezeptionsgeschichtlich und gegenwartsbezogen die Frage nach Bibelhermeneutik und dogmatischer Theologie nach Kant in den Blick.

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In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On one side were those socialists - such as Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels - who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself. This new edition of the book includes a long interview with Kouvelakis which puts the work in context.

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Si la tarea del intelectual político, según Oskar Negt, consiste en hacer un alto y preguntar por el significado de lo pasado para nuestro presente, esto vale especialmente en el caso de las filosofías de Kant y Marx, pues nada de lo que éstos han problematizado como modo humano de existencia está concluido, liquidado o suprimido por su realización.La lección pública de su despedida académica le brinda a Negt, continuador independiente de la labor crítica de la Escuela de Fráncfort, la ocasión de abogar por el renacimiento de Kant y Marx en el contexto de la tradición emancipadora que se funda en la noción kantiana de dignidad humana y en la que cabe integrar el pensamiento marxiano. A través de la aclaración de las relaciones entre ser y deber, y entre teoría y praxis, y desde la rica experiencia del autor, esta conferencia expone la actualidad del imperativo categórico, la vinculación entre la filosofía kantiana y el socialismo y el lugar de la moral en el marxismo.

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A nuanced extrapolation of Hannah Arendt’s theory of judgment through her highly provocative reading of Immanuel Kant More than a half century after it was first published, Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism rose to the top of best-seller lists as readers grappled with the triumph of Trumpism. Arendt, Kant, and the Enigma of Judgment directs our attention to her later thought, the posthumously published and highly provocative Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy. Martin Blumenthal-Barby puts this work in dialogue with Arendt’s other writings, including her notes on Kant’s Critique of Judgment, to outline her theory of judgment for the twentieth century. The idea that authentic judgment—for example, the ability to distinguish right from wrong—is incommensurable with abstract, automated processes lies at the center of Arendt’s late work and at the fore of our collective reckoning in an era of post-truths and artificial intelligence. Rather than presenting us with a fixed account, Blumenthal-Barby suggests, Arendt’s drawing and redrawing of conceptual distinctions is itself an enactment of judgment, a process that challenges and complicates what she says at every turn. In so doing, Arendt, in thoroughly Kantian fashion, establishes judgment as a performative category that can never be taught but only demonstrated. As sharp as it is timely, this incisive book reminds us why a shared reality matters in a time of intense political polarization and why the democratic project, vulnerable as it may appear today, crucially depends on it.

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Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant's move. Menninghaus shows parergonality and "nonsense" to be two key features in the spread of the arabesque from architecture and the fine arts to philosophy and finally to literature. On the one hand, comparative readings of the parergon in Enlightenment aesthetics, Kant, and Schlegel reveal the importance of this term for establishing the very notion of a self-reflective work of art. On the other hand, drawing on Kant's posthumous anthropological notebooks, Menninghaus extrapolates an entire Kantian theory of what it means to produce nonsense and why the Critique of Judgment defines genius precisely through the power (as well as the dangers) of doing so. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." Menninghaus's close reading of this capricious narrative reveals a specifically Romantic—as opposed, say, to a Victorian or dadaistic—type of nonsense. Benjamin's as well as Propp's, Lévi-Strauss's, and Meletinskij's oppositions of myth and fairy tale lend additional credit to a Romantic poetics that inaugurates "universal poetry" while performing a bizarre trajectory through arabesque ornament, nonsense, parergonality, and the fairy tale.

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The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonistic theories in recent years and remains the main source of the impasse between them. This open access book seeks to break this impasse by going back to their sources in Kant (for deliberative theories) and Nietzsche (for agonisms) and reframing them as philosophers of conflict. For both philosophers, conflict is part of the deep structure' of reality at all levels, and their reflections on its constitutive, constructive and destructive potentials raise fundamental questions that democratic theories can ill afford to ignore. Through a series of text-based comparative studies of Kant's and Nietzsche's philosophies of conflict, Herman Siemens addresses the central question of the book: What does it take to think of conflict, real opposition or contradiction as an intrinsic dimension of reality? Drawing on Kant's pre-critical writings a

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