The Cambridge Companion to Kant

by Edited by Paul Guyer

• ISBN13: 9780521367684
• ISBN10: 0521367689
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography provides extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant in the main languages of Kant scholarship. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction to Kant and his place in modern philosophy currently available. It makes accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the starry heavens and the moral law Paul Guyer

1. Kant's intellectual development: 1746-1781 Frederick C. Beiser

2. The Transcendental Aesthetic Charles Parsons

3. Functions of thought and the synthesis of intuitions J. Michael Young

4. The transcendental deduction of the categories Paul Guyer

5. Causal laws and the foundations of natural science Michael Friedman

6. Empirical, rational and transcendental psychology: psychology as science and as philosophy Gary Hatfield

7. Reason and practice of science Thomas E. Wartenberg

8. The critique of metaphysics: Kant and traditional ontology Karl Ameriks

9. Vindicating reason Onora O'Neill

10. Autonomy, obligation and virtue: an overview of Kant's moral philosophy J. B. Schneewind

11. Politics, freedom and order: Kant's political philosophy Wolfgang Kersting

12. Taste, sublimity and genius: the aesthetics of nature and art Eva Schaper

13. Rational theology, moral faith and religion Allen W. Wood

14. The first twenty years of critique: the Spinoza connection George di Gionvanni.