Kants Dog

Author : David E. Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438442661
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Dog written by David E. Johnson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's Dog provides fresh insight into Borges's preoccupation with the contradiction of the time that passes and the identity that endures. By developing the implicit logic of the Borgesian archive, which is most often figured as the universal demand for and necessary impossibility of translation, Kant's Dog is able to spell out Borges's responses to the philosophical problems that most concerned him, those of the constitution of time, eternity, and identity; the determination of original and copy; the legitimacy of authority; experience; the nature of language and the possibility of a decision; and the name of God. Kant's Dog offers original interpretations of several of Borges's best known and most important stories and of the works of key figures in the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Saint Paul, Maimonides, Hume, Locke, Kant, Heidegger, and Derrida. This study outlines Borges's curious relationship to literature and philosophy and, through a reconsideration of the relation between necessity and accident, opens the question of the constitution of philosophy and literature. The afterword develops the logic of translation toward the secret at the heart of every culture in order to posit a Borgesian challenge to anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : David E. Johnson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438442653
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Dog written by David E. Johnson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300102666
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Transcendental Idealism written by Henry E. Allison and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book is now reissued in a rewritten & updated edition that takes account of recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the 'Third Analogy', an expanded discussion of Kant's 'Paralogisms' & new chapters on Kant's theory of reason, theology & the 'Appendix to the Dialectic'.

Author : Robert J. Roecklein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498571409
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant’s Philosophy and the Momentum of Modernity written by Robert J. Roecklein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a careful study of Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in the movement known as early modern philosophy. The chief interest of the author concerns the philosophy of perception that is manifest in Kant’s doctrines of the transcendental aesthetic and the concept of phenomena. Philosophy bears a crucial relationship to the public in terms of the evidence that it identifies as original and binding. In the early modern period, philosophy repudiated its dependence on ordinary perception, and on language as ordinarily used, in the setting forth of its own authority. This historiographical fact is presently of immense interest, as public discourse finds itself rudderless and without agreed upon common facts for deliberation to settle on. It was not the view of the ancient Greeks that philosophy could so emancipate itself from the perception of common facts as the original evidence for higher investigations. The Early Modern era, beginning with Bacon but now more furiously in the work of Kant, has anchored a general indictment of ordinary perception in a remnant of natural philosophy. Human beings, in Kant’s philosophy, are not capable of knowing what objects, external objects, are in themselves. We may only know what are called "appearances," and Kant refers to these appearances as phenomena. Yet this claim is complicated by the a priori knowledge which Kant claims to possess as regards these phenomena: that they must all be eternal substances. The book freely moves back and forth between Greek antiquity and the Early Modern period to illustrate the full nature of the rupture on this ground of the metaphysics of fact determination. For Aristotle, the founder of the theory of substance, substances are just the perishable bodies commonly perceived. Kant’s phenomena, which claims to embody what appears to the generality of the human race, cannot be that, for the human race does not perceive eternal objects.

Author : David Baumeister
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144697
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant on the Human Animal written by David Baumeister and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Immanuel Kant’s account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human animality (Thierheit) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant’s vision of human nature, are original and ineradicable. And yet, the relation between them is fraught: at times tense and violent, at other times complementary, even harmonious. Kant on the Human Animal offers the first systematic analysis of this central but neglected dimension of Kant’s philosophy. David Baumeister tracks four decades of Kant’s intellectual development, surveying works published in Kant’s lifetime along with posthumously published notes and student lecture transcripts. They show the crucial role that animality plays in many previously unconnected areas of Kant’s thought, such as his account of the human’s originally quadrupedal posture, his theory of early childhood development, and his conception of the process of human racial differentiation. Beginning with a delineation of Kant’s understanding of the commonalities and differences between humans and other animals, Baumeister focuses on the contribution of animality to Kant’s views of ethics, anthropology, human nature, and race. Placing divergent features of Kant’s thought within a unified interpretive framework, Kant on the Human Animal reveals how, for Kant, becoming human requires that animality not be eclipsed and overcome but rather disciplined and developed. What emerges is a new appreciation of Kant’s human being as the human animal it is.

Author : Jonathan Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521093897
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Kant's Analytic written by Jonathan Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critque and analysis of Kant's Analytic.

Author : Karin de Boer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108842178
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Reform of Metaphysics written by Karin de Boer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets key parts of the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant's sustained engagement with Wolffian metaphysics.

Author : Thomas C. Vinci
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019938116X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space, Geometry, and Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories written by Thomas C. Vinci and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In section 20 in the B edition 'Deduction', Kant states that his purpose is achieved: to show that all intuitions in general are subject to the categories. The standard reading understands this to mean that all our representational ideas, including those originating in sense experience, are structured by categories: there are 'no judgments of perception' in the doctrine of the 'First Critique', only judgments of experience. Against this reading the book argues that while all intuitions for Kant are unified intuitions, not all are unified by the categories, thus allowing for judgments of perception.

Author : Michael Pendlebury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350254789
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason” written by Michael Pendlebury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy. In this short, stimulating introduction, Michael Pendlebury explains Kant's major claims in the Critique, how they hang together, and how Kant supports them, clarifying the way in which his reasoning unfolds over the course of this groundbreaking work. Making Sense of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason concentrates on key parts of the Critique that are essential to a basic understanding of Kant's project and provides a sympathetic account of Kant's reasoning about perception, space, time, judgment, substance, causation, objectivity, synthetic a priori knowledge, and the illusions of transcendent metaphysics. The guiding assumptions of the book are that Kant is a humanist; that his reasoning in the Critique is driven by an interest in human knowledge and the cognitive capacities that underlie it; and that he is not a skeptic, but accepts that human beings have objective knowledge and seeks to explain how this is possible. Pendlebury provides an integrated and accessible account of Kant's explanation that will help those who are new to the Critique make sense of it.

Author : Mojca Kuplen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350289523
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism written by Mojca Kuplen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant's account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts whilst promoting self-knowledge. Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art, this study covers the value and importance of art, the relationship between art and beauty, the role of knowledge in art and the criteria for artistic excellence. It offers an insight into problems related to the apprehension of meaning and the cognitive processing of abstract representations that have been of interest to contemporary cognitive science. Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism presents these arguments in a lucid and wide-ranging engagement with the history of aesthetics and current academic debates to understand what art is and why it is valuable.