Kant Trouble: Obscurities of the Enlightened

ISBN-13: 9780415183529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 250 str.

Diane Morgan

Opis

Offers a reading of some of the lesser known and less lucid aspects of Kantian thought. Diane Morgan focuses her investigation on a reappraisal of Kant's writings on architecture, monarchy and faith in progress. Throughout her study Morgan challenges the widely held view of Kant as the exponent of concrete and rigid rationality and argues that his airtight architectonic mode of reasoning, which Kant identified in The Critique of Pure Reason, overlooks certain topics which destabilize it. Themes such as temporary forms of architecture, like landscape gardening; examples which undermine the autonomy of the Kantian subject, for example freemasonry; and the concept of radical evil suggest that Kant's thought was capable of accommodating troubling and subversive themes.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Three Cases of Doubling; Chapter 3 The Architectonic in Kantian Philosophy I; Chapter 4 The Architectonic in Kantian Philosophy II; Chapter 5 Devilish Dissimulations in Human Nature; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

O autorze

Diane Morgan