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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Early Life
The Enlightenment
Theories of Mind and Nature
What is Metaphysics?
Kant’s Early Career
Early Pre-Critical Work from 1746 to 1770
Period of Silence, 1770–80
Critical Philosophy
The Potential of Judgement
Three Cognitive Faculties
Imagination and Reflexivity
Understanding, Representation and Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
The Uncertainties of Representation
The Central Question
The Transcendental Aesthetic
The Role of Form
Space and Time
The Absences of Space and Time
Two Operations of Imagination: Apprehension and Reproduction
Understanding and Intuition
The Categories
Kant’s Four Categories
How Does Understanding Occur?
Kant’s “Copernican Revolution”
How Images (Data) Become Possible
Understanding and Apperception
The Help of Reason
The Illusions of Understanding
The Paralogisms of Pure Reason
The Antinomy of Pure Reason
The Ideal of Pure Reason
Kant’s Middle Years
Dining with Professor Kant
The Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Predestination or Free Will?
Free Will and Desire
Moral Examples
The Antinomy of Practical Reason
Unconditional Freedom
Effort and Sacrifice
Rethinking the Faculties
Absolute Absence of Moral Reason
The Limits of Consciousness
Pure Freedom and Desire for Knowledge
The Sacrifice of Freedom
The Noumenon or “Thing in Itself”
Mourning and Sacrifice
Suffering the Absence of Reason
Freedom of the Rational Being
The Suprasensible System
Subject to the Law
Free to Think Freedom
The Categorical Imperative
Avoid Illusion
Seek Self-Contentment
Moral Law Cannot be Represented
Kant’s Physical Obsessions
The Critique of Judgement (1790)
Analytic of the Beautiful
Judgement and Feeling
Judgement and Form
The Unknown in its Relation to Judgement
The Place of Feeling in Judgement
The Sensuality of Thought
The Priority of Design
Nature Versus Artifice
Nature, Design and Ornament
Genius Transforms Nature
The Order of the Arts
Romantic Ideas of Genius
Genius and Deformation
Analytic of the Sublime
Burke’s View of the Sublime
The Mathematical Sublime
The Dynamic Sublime
Experiencing the Sublime
Excess of Freedom
Freedom From Nature
Freedom, Pain and Desire
Critique of Teleological Judgement
Kant and Religion
Job, An Elightenment Figure
What is Enlightenment?
Private and Public Reason
A Royal Warning
Kant’s Last Days
After Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
Michel Foucault (1926–84)
Jean-François Lyotard (b. 1924)
Jacques Derrida (b. 1930)
Conclusion
Further Reading
Author’s acknowledgements
Artist’s acknowledgements
Index
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