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Kant's Dialectic

Kant's Dialectic

Kant's Dialectic

August 2016
Available
Hardback
9781107140578

    Jonathan Bennett's analysis of the second half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in which Kant concerns himself with topics such as substance, the nature of the self, the cosmos, freedom and the existence of God, continues to be an engaging and accessible exploration of Kant's major work. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Karl Ameriks, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work has been revived for a new generation of readers.

    • Unique to Cambridge, this classic book has been revived and rebranded for a twenty-first-century readership
    • Forms both an introduction to and a rigorous analysis of the second half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
    • Approaches Kant's arguments from the standpoint of contemporary analytical philosophy
    • Features a specially commissioned preface written by Karl Ameriks

    Product details

    August 2016
    Hardback
    9781107140578
    306 pages
    234 × 155 × 21 mm
    0.57kg
    1 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface to this edition Karl Ameriks
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Concepts and intuitions
    • 3. Substances and reality
    • 4. The substantiality of the soul
    • 5. The simplicity of the soul
    • 6. The identity of the soul
    • 7. Infinity
    • 8. Limits
    • 9. Divisibility
    • 10. Freedom
    • 11. God
    • 12. Reason
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Karl Ameriks

    • Author
    • Jonathan Bennett

      Jonathan Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He has published extensively on early modern philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of language.