Kant's Philosophical Revolution (eBook)

A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason

Yirmiyahu Yovel (Autor)

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2018
128 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9028-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. A philosophical revolutionary, Kant had to invent a language to express his new ideas, and he wrote quickly. It's little wonder that the Critique was misunderstood from the start, or that Kant was compelled to revise it in a second edition, or that it still presents great challenges to the reader. In this short, accessible book, eminent philosopher and Kant expert Yirmiyahu Yovel helps readers find their way through the web of Kant's classic by providing a clear and authoritative summary of the entire work. The distillation of decades of studying and teaching Kant, Yovel's "e;systematic explication"e; untangles the ideas and arguments of the Critique in the order in which Kant presents them. This guide provides helpful explanations of difficult issues such as the difference between general and transcendental logic, the variants of Transcendental Deduction, and the constitutive role of the "e;I think."e; Yovel underscores the central importance of Kant's insistence on the finitude of reason and succinctly describes how the Critique's key ideas are related to Kant's other writings. The result is an invaluable guide for philosophers and students.

Autor

Yirmiyahu Yovel is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was previously the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include Kant and the Philosophy of History and Spinoza and Other Heretics (both Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • AIGA • Analogy • Analytic–synthetic distinction • Antinomy • Antithesis • Apodicticity • Apprehension (understanding) • A priori and a posteriori • Argument • A Treatise of Human Nature • Axiom • basic research • Causality • circular reasoning • Concept • Condition of possibility • Consciousness • Contingency (Philosophy) • Contradiction • Copernican Revolution (metaphor) • Cosmological Argument • critique • Critique of Pure Reason • Deductive Reasoning • Dogma • Dualism (philosophy of mind) • Empirical Evidence • Empiricism • ethics • Existence • existence of god • ex nihilo • Explanation • explication • facticity • fallacy • First principle • Font Bureau • Foundations of mathematics • German Idealism • idealism • inference • Inquiry • Intuitionism • J. (newspaper) • KANTIANISM • Logic • matthew carter • Metaphilosophy • Modernity • Morality • Natural science • Newton's law of universal gravitation • Noumenon • Objectivity (philosophy) • Ontological Argument • Ontology • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical analysis • philosophical progress • Philosophy • Pierre Simon Fournier • P. J. Conkwright • Positivism • Potentiality and actuality • Principle • Process Philosophy • Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics • Psychologism • Pure practical reason • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • Reinforcement • Science • Scotch Roman • Seminar • skepticism • Solipsism • Speculative reason • Subjective idealism • Subjectivity • Substance theory • Telos (philosophy) • The Freedom of the Will • The New School • Theoretical definition • theory • Theory of Forms • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson • The Philosopher • Thought • Transcendence (Philosophy) • transcendental arguments • Transcendental idealism • Typeface • Universality (philosophy)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9028-4 / 1400890284
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9028-6 / 9781400890286