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This is the first book-length study to interpret the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant's sustained efforts to turn Wolffian metaphysics into a science. It not only sheds new light on key chapters of Kant's work, but also reconstructs the outline of his projected 'system of pure reason'.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Wolff, Crusius, and Kant; 2. The "Thorny Paths of Critique"; 3. Ontology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy; 4. Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads; 5. The 1781 Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding; 6. The Schematism of the Pure Understanding; 7. Transcendental Reflection; 8. Kant's Projected System of Pure Reason; Conclusion.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Karin de Boer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She is the author of Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger's Encounter with Hegel (2000) and On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (2010), as well as of numerous articles on Kant, Hegel, classical German philosophy, and Heidegger. She also co-edited, with Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (2020).
Zusammenfassung
This is the first book-length study to interpret the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant's sustained efforts to turn Wolffian metaphysics into a science. It not only sheds new light on key chapters of Kant's work, but also reconstructs the outline of his projected 'system of pure reason'.
