Kant and the Fate of Autonomy
Subtitle: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy (Modern European Philosophy)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 26, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521786140
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; 19th century; Liberty; Kant, Immanuel,; History & Surveys - General; History & Surveys - Modern; Kant, Immanuel,--1724-1804--Contributions in concept of freedom; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; 18th century; Reinhold, Karl Leonhard,; 1724-1804; 1758-1823; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb,; History
First sentence: From a contemporary perspective, this remark, like Kant's Critical writings in general, can easily appear to suffer from a laughable fascination with systematicity, and to indicate an attitude that does serious injustice to both theoretical and practical realities by distorting issues in order to satisfy an obsession with formal principles.