Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason / Edition 1

by Jay F. Rosenberg

Overview

Jay Rosenberg introduces Immanuel Kant's masterwork, the Critique of Pure Reason, from a "relaxed" problem-oriented perspective which treats Kant as an especially insightful practicing philosopher, from whom we still have much to learn, intelligently and creatively responding to significant questions that transcend his work's historical setting. Rosenberg's main project is to command a clear view of how Kant understands various perennial problems, how he attempts to resolve them, and to what extent he succeeds. At the same time the book is an introduction to the challenges of reading the text of Kant's work and, to that end, selectively adopts a more rigorous historical and exegetical stance. Accessing Kant will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and for any scholar seeking Rosenberg's own distinctive insights into Kant's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199275823
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	9.16(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Table of Contents

Introduction: Two ways to encounter Kant1. Intelligibility: From Direct Platonism to Concept Empiricism2. Epistemic Legitimacy: Experiential Unity, First Principles, and Strategy K3. The World from a Point of View: Space and Time4. Concepts and Categories: Transcendental Logic and the Metaphysical Deduction5. Perceptual Synthesis: From Sensations to Objects6. Schemata and Principles: From Pure Concepts to Objects7. Synchronic Manifolds: The Axioms and Anticipations8. Diachronic Manifolds: The Analogies of Experience9. Duration and Persistence: Substance in the Analogies10. Succession and Simultaneity: Causation in the Analogies11. The World as Actual: The Postulates and the Refutation of Idealism12. The Thinking Self as an Idea of Reason: The Paralogisms13. Reason in Conflict with Itself: A Brief Look at the AntinomiesEpilogue: The Rest of the First Critique

Editorial Reviews

"It would be hard to imagine a more elegant point of entry into the rich interpretative tradition Accessing Kant so ably advocates."—Eric Entrican Wilson, Journal of the History of Philosophy

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