Theoretical Philosophy After 1781

by Immanuel Kant , Edited and translated by Henry Allison , Peter Heath , Translated by Gary Hatfield , Michael Friedman

• ISBN13: 9780521460972
• ISBN10: 0521460972
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual development. As with other volumes in the series there are copious linguistic notes and a glossary of key terms. The editorial introductions and explanatory notes shed light on the critical reception accorded Kant by the metaphysicians of his day and on Kant's own efforts to derail his opponents.

Table of Contents

General editors' preface	xi
General introduction	1	(28)
Henry Allison
Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science (1783)	29	(142)
Gary Hatfield
Metaphysical foundations of natural science (1786)	171	(100)
Michael Friedman
On a discovery whereby any new critique of pure reason is to be made superfluous by an older one (1790)	271	(66)
Henry Allison
What real progress has metaphysics made in Germany since the time of Leibniz and Wolff? (1793/1804)	337	(88)
On a recently prominent tone of superiority in philosophy (1796)	425	(22)
Settlement of a mathematical dispute founded on misunderstanding (1796)	447	(4)
Proclamation of the imminent conclusion of a treaty of perpetual peace in philosophy (1796)	451	(10)
Peter Heath
Editorial notes	461	(39)
Glossary	500	(19)
Index of names	519	(3)
Index of subjects	522