A Kant Dictionary / Edition 1

by Howard Caygill

Overview

In this new lexical survey of Kant's works, Howard Caygill presents Kantian concepts and terminology in terms that will introduce and clarify his ideas for students and general readers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631175353
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/05/1995
Series:	Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries , #2
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	545,576
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Howard Caygill is currently lecturer in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has previously been ESRC postdoctoral fellow at Balliol College, Oxford and British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Kant and the Language of Philosophy.

Systems of Citations and Abbreviations.

Kant and the ‘Age of Criticism’.

Dictionary Entries.

Kant’s Published Writings.

Works referred to in the Text.

Recommended Further Reading.

Index of Philosophers.

Index of Concepts.

Editorial Reviews

This volume, the fifth in a series that also covers Locke, Hegel, Rousseau, and Descartes, differs somewhat from its more straighforward predecessors in content. After an introductory essay entitled "Kant and the `Age of Criticism,'" which provides background on Kant's intellectual and writing history, Caygill (coeditor, The Fate of the New Nietzsche, Ashgate, 1993) launches into a dictionary proper. But this is not a dictionary of terms in the conventional sense; the entries are not simply definitions but are more like mini-encyclopedia entries in that they provide analysis and link the terms to other relevant terms in Kant's works. In preparing the dictionary entries this way, Caygill offers a far more useful tool to readers of Kant than the standard dictionary. The bibliographies provide a chronological list of Kant's published writings, a bibliography of works referred to in the dictionary itself, and a list of recommended further readings. One interesting addition is an index that ties the names of philosophers to the dictionary entries in which they appear. This volume deserves a place in all libraries with holdings on philosophy, as do the other volumes in the series.Terry Skeats, Bishop's Univ. Lib., Lennoxville, Quebec

Library Journal

" Howard Caygill is a find Kant scholar and a superb reader of the history of philosophy, which makes him well-qualified to carry out the unenviable task of constructing a Kant Lexicon. What he has come up with is an immensely readable and instructive text, written with great lucidity and acumen, and executed with a clear sense of purpose and commitment." Keith Ansell Pearson, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Issue 11

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