Reading Kant's Lectures

Reading Kant's Lectures
Author: Robert R. Clewis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110345331

This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant’s teaching in relation to his published works. With the Academy edition’s continuing publication of Kant’s lectures, the role of his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved attention. Several of Kant’s lectures on metaphysics, logic, ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated into English, and important studies have appeared in many languages. But why study the lectures? When they are read in light of Kant’s published writings, the lectures offer a new perspective of Kant’s philosophical development, clarify points in the published texts, consider topics there unexamined, and depict the intellectual background in richer detail. And the lectures are often more accessible to readers than the published works. This book discusses all areas of Kant's lecturing activity. Some essays even analyze in detail the content of Kant's courses and the role of textbooks written by key authors such as Baumgarten, helping us understand Kant’s thought in its intellectual and historical contexts. Contributors: Huaping Lu-Adler; Henny Blomme ; Robert Clewis; Alix Cohen; Corey Dyck; Faustino Fabbianelli; Norbert Fischer; Courtney Fugate; Paul Guyer; Robert Louden; Antonio Moretto; Steve Naragon; Christian Onof; Stephen Palmquist; Riccardo Pozzo; Frederick Rauscher; Dennis Schulting; Oliver Sensen; Susan Shell; Werner Stark; John Zammito; Günter Zöller

Kant's Lectures on Anthropology

Kant's Lectures on Anthropology
Author: Alix Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107024919

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

Kant's Lectures on Ethics

Kant's Lectures on Ethics
Author: Lara Denis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2015-04-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316194574

This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.

Reading Kant's Geography

Reading Kant's Geography
Author: Stuart Elden
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438436068

For almost forty years, German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant gave lectures on geography, more than almost any other subject. Kant believed that geography and anthropology together provided knowledge of the world, an empirical ground for his thought. Above all, he thought that knowledge of the world was indispensable to the development of an informed cosmopolitan citizenry that would be self-ruling. While these lectures have received very little attention compared to his work on other subjects, they are an indispensable source of material and insight for understanding his work, specifically his thinking and contributions to anthropology, race theory, space and time, history, the environment and the emergence of a mature public. This indispensable volume brings together world-renowned scholars of geography, philosophy and related disciplines to offer a broad discussion of the importance of Kant's work on this topic for contemporary philosophical and geographical work.

Lectures on Anthropology

Lectures on Anthropology
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2012-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521771617

The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.

Lectures on Philosophical Theology

Lectures on Philosophical Theology
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780801493799

"Lectures on Philosophical Theology is an indispensable addition to Kant's works in English. It has not been previously translated, and even though it is compiled from lecture notes, it provides information on Kant's views not previously available in English."--Philosophical Books

Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’

Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804744263

Though he is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses. This volume contains his lectures from the course on the Critique of Pure Reason.

Lectures on Metaphysics

Lectures on Metaphysics
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2001-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521000765

This volume contains the first translation into English of notes from Kant's lectures on metaphysics.

Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics

Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics
Author: Courtney D. Fugate
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316827550

Kant divided his course of lectures on metaphysics into six parts: a section entitled 'prolegomena' followed by chapters on ontology, cosmology, empirical psychology, rational psychology, and natural theology. This volume's ten chapters, written by leading Kant scholars, constitute the most comprehensive and informed analysis of his metaphysics lectures to date. The book provides balanced coverage of the lecture transcripts from Kant's course by following his general structure, with at least one chapter devoted to major themes from each of its parts. As well as examining what the lecture transcripts can tell us about the content, context, and development of Kant's thought on a range of key topics - from his conception of transcendental philosophy to his critical theism - the contributors to this volume also offer expert discussion and insight on how to make responsible use of these key primary materials from the Kantian corpus.