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Zusatztext "Melnick's book is rich as an interpretation of Kant! as a study of phenomenology! and as a fairly revisionary picture of metaphysics...Activity-based interpretations of Kant's view on the self have been suggested elsewhere by others! but none has been fleshed out in the way Melnick's is here. As Melnick shows! there are important reasons why such a reading of Kant is appealing! and any commentator wrestling with Kant's views on the self would do well to consider carefully Melnick's contribution to the literature." - Colin Marshall! New York University! USA Informationen zum Autor Arthur Melnick is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published several books on Kant's philosophy including Space! Time! and Thought in Kant! and Themes in Kant's Metaphysics and Ethics. Klappentext The self for Kant is something real! and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself! but rather has some third status. This book explains the 'third status' by identifying the self with intellectual action that does not arise in the progression of attending (and so is not appearance)! but accompanies and unifies inner attending. Zusammenfassung Melnick explains the "third status" of the self by identifying it with intellectual action that does not arise in the progression of attending (and so is not appearance), but accompanies and unifies inner attending. As so accompanying, it progresses with that attending and is therefore temporal--not a thing in itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Preliminary Overview; Chapter 1. The Reality of the Thinking Self; Chapter 2.The Paralogisms and Transcendental Idealism; Part II The Thinking Self; Chapter 3. The First Paralogism; Chapter 4. The Second Paralogism; Chapter 5. Transcendental Self-Consciousness; Chapter 6. Other Interpretations of the Paralogisms; Part III- The Cognizing Subject; Chapter 7. Empirical Apperception; Chapter 8. Pure Apperception; Part IV The Person as Subject; Chapter 9. Apperception and Inner Sense; Chapter 10. The Third Paralogism and Kant's Conception of a Person; Part V The Subject and Material Reality; Chapter 11. The Embodied Subject; Chapter 12. The Fourth Paralogism ...
