The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community - Brossura

Shell, Susan Meld

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ISBN 10: 0226752178 ISBN 13: 9780226752174

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Riassunto

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant's individual writings, but also the unity of his work and life experience.

Shell argues that the central animating issues of Kant's lifework concerned the perplexing relation of spirit to body. Through an exacting analysis of individual writings, Shell maps the philosophical contours of Kant's early intellectual struggles and their relation to his more mature thought. The paradox of mind in matter and the tensions it generates—between freedom and determinacy, independence and community, ideal and real—are shown to inform the whole of his work. Shell's fresh, penetrating analysis of the precritical works will surely catapult them to new prominence in Kant studies.

Shell's critique goes further to consider the context of contemporary intellectual life. She explores the fascinating realm of Kant's sexual and medical idiosyncracies, linking them to the primary concerns of his critical philosophy. She develops a sure-to-be controversial treatment of the connection between Kant's philosophy and his chronic hypochondria, and illuminates previously unforeseen connections in a remarkable convergence of life and thought, with important theoretical and practical implications for modern times.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Susan Meld Shell is professor of political philosophy at Boston College.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226752178
• ISBN 13: 9780226752174
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 492
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile