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Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant’s early criticism of Swedenborg’s mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason’s light.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction: The Problem of Mystical Experience in Kant
Part I
Swedenborg's Influence on Kant's Critical Awakening
Chapter 1 - The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Kant's Awakening from Dogmatic Slumber
Chapter 2 - The Impact of Swedenborg's Mysticism on Kant's Metaphysical Dreams
Chapter 3 - Kant's Awakening: The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Critical Mysticism
Chapter 4 - Kant's Metaphysical Dream: A System of Critical Philosophy
Part II
Kant's Critical Philosophy as a Critique of Mysticism
Chapter 5 - Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium?
Chapter 6 - Kant's Critique of Delirious Mysticism
Chapter 7 - Critical Mysticism as Immediate Experience of the Moral
Chapter 8 - Key Metaphors Guiding Kant's Critical Mysticism
Part III
The Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical Mysticism
Chapter 9 - Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced?
Chapter 10 - The Categorical Imperative as the Voice of God
Chapter 11 - Matter's Living Force
About the author
Stephen R. Palmquist is Professor (retired) in the Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University, China, and author of books such as Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason's Light (Lexington Books 2022).
Summary
Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant’s early criticism of Swedenborg’s mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason’s light.
