Kant''s Lectures on Anthropology - A Critical Guide

Informationen zum Autor Alix Cohen is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (2009), and has published articles in journals including the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Kantian Review, History of Philosophy Quarterly and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Klappentext This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance. Zusammenfassung This volume is the first comprehensive assessment of Kant's lectures on anthropology. Exploring a wide range of topics! from the epistemological and psychological to the moral and cultural! this collection is of interest to scholars and upper-level students of Kant! the history of anthropology and the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Alix Cohen; 1. Kant's lectures on anthropology: some orienting remarks Werner Stark; 2. Self-cognition and self-assessment Rudolf A. Makkreel; 3. Kant on the phenomenology of touch and vision Gary Hatfield; 4. Meat on the bones: Kant's account of cognition in the anthropology lectures Tim Jankowiak and Eric Watkins; 5. The anthropology of cognition and its pragmatic implications Alix Cohen; 6. Affects and passions Patrick R. Frierson; 7. The inclination toward freedom Paul Guyer; 8. Empirical desire Allen W. Wood; 9. Kant as 'vitalist': the 'principium of life' in Anthropologie Friedländer Susan Meld Shell; 10. Indispensable education of the being of reason and speech G. Felicitas Munzel; 11. Kant on civilisation, culture and moralisation Catherine Wilson; 12. Cosmopolitical unity: the final destiny of the human species Robert B. Louden; 13. What a young man needs for his venture into the world: the function and evolution of the 'Characteristics' John H. Zammito; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Alix Cohen, Alix (University of Edinburgh) Cohen
• Assisted by: Alix Cohen (Editor), Cohen Alix (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781316621547
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62154-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides; Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Society & social sciences, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Cognition & cognitive psychology, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Western philosophy: Enlightenment