Binding: Hardcover
Description: In this volume Karl Ameriks explores Kantian subjects in three senses. In Part I he first clarifies the most distinctive features - such as freedom and autonomy - of Kant's notion of what it is for us to be a subject. Other chapters then consider related 'subjects that are basic topics in other parts of Kant's philosophy such as his notions of necessity and history. Part II examines the ways in which many of us as 'late modern have been highly influenced by Kant's philosophy and its indirect effect on our self - conception through successive generations of post - Kantians such as Hegel and Schelling and early Romantic writers such as H lderlin Schlegel and Novalis thus making us Kantian subjects in a new historical sense. By defending the fundamentals of Kant's ethics in reaction to some of the latest scholarship in the opening chapters Ameriks offers an extensive argument that H lderlin expresses a valuable philosophical position that is much closer to Kant than has generally been recognized. He also argues that it was necessary for Kant's position to be supplemented by the new conception introduced by the post - Kantians of philosophy as fundamentally historical and that this conception has had a growing influence on the most interesting strands of Anglophone as well as Continental philosophy.
Title: Kantian Subjects Critical Philosophy And Late Modernity
Author(s): Ameriks Karl (Mcmahon - Hank Professor Of Philosophy Mcmahon - Hank Professor Of Philosophy University Of Notre Dame)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198841852
Pages: 286 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2020
Category: Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900