The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant

by Banham, Gary; Schulting, Dennis; Hems, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781472586780
• ISBN10: 1472586786
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. His philosophy is extraordinarily wide-ranging and his influence has been pervasive throughout eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century thought, in particular in the work of the German Idealists, and also in both Analytic and Continental philosophy today.

Now available as a new and expanded edition in paperback, this accessible companion to Kant features more than 100 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of experts in the field, covering every aspect of his philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant presents a comprehensive overview of the historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought. It also includes extensive synopses of all his major published works and a survey of the key lines of reception and influence including a new addition on Schopenhauer's reception of Kant. It concludes with a thorough bibliography of English language secondary literature, now expanded for this edition to include all cutting-edge publications in the area. This is an essential and practical research tool for those working in the field of eighteenth-century German philosophy and Kant.

Author Biography

Gary Banham was the Managing Editor of Kant Studies Online, an electronic journal, and an independent philosopher. Author of Kant's Transcendental Imagination (2006), Kant's Practical Philosophy (2003) and Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics (2000).

Dennis Schulting was Assistant Professor of Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam from 2006 to 2011. He is now an independent scholar. He is the author of Kant's Deduction and Apperception (2012) and editor of Kant's Idealism (2011).

Nigel Hems is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations of Kant's Works
Introduction
Part I: Key Writings
1. Key Works
The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God / The 'Inaugural Dissertation' / Critique of Pure Reason / Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science / Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals / Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science / Critique of Practical Reason / Critique of Judgment / Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason / Toward Perpetual Peace / Metaphysics of Morals
Part II: Kant's Contexts
2. Philosophical and Historical Context
Academy prize essay / Aristotelianism / J. A. Eberhard / Empiricism / Frederick the Great / French Revolution / Garve-Feder review / Herder / Francis Hutcheson / Königsberg / J. H. Lambert / Moses Mendelssohn / Physical influx / Pietism / Prussia / School Metaphysics / Adam Smith / Spinoza
3. Sources and Influences
Aristotle / Francis Bacon / A. Baumgarten / Cicero / C. A. Crusius / Descartes / Epicurus and Epicureanism / Leonhard Euler / Marcus Herz / Hume / Leibniz / Locke / G. F. Meier / Newton / Plato / Rousseau / Swedenborg / J. N. Tetens / Wolff
Part III: Key Themes and Topics
4. Key Themes and Topics
Part IV: Reception and Influence
5. Reception and Influence
Until 1781: Responses to Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation / First Responses to the Critique of Pure Reason: The 1780s and Later / Schopenhauer's Reception of Kant / Kantianism in the 1790s: From Reinhold to Hegel / Hegel’s Appropriation of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy in the Jena Period / ‘Back to Kant’: Neo-Kantianism / Heidegger’s Phenomenological Reading of Kant / Analytical Kantianism / Analytic Approaches to Kant’s Ethics / Kantian Normativity in Rawls, Korsgaard and Continental Practical Philosophy
Part V: Bibliography
6. Kant Bibliography
Notes
Index