Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus (Routledge Philosophers in Focus Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 6, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415115759
First sentence: In Preface (II) of the Prolegomena Kant states that "the suggestion of David Hume was the very thing, which, many years ago, first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave my investigations in the field of speculative philosophy quite a new direction" (p. 33).
Description: Is metaphysical knowledge possible? What kind of knowledge can be called metaphysical? What is the source of metaphysical knowledge? Such are the questions addressed by Kant in his famous Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. His ultimate argument, that there is no such thing as metaphysics, continues to fascinate and challenge contemporary philosophers.

This book provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of some issues and problems raised by Kant. In addition to the Carus translation of Kant's work, it offers a substantive new introduction, six seminal essays on the Prolegomena never before published together and an extensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose treatment of causality, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's "dogmatic slumber".