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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'.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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).
Summary
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'.
