Goodbye, Kant!: What Still Stands Of The Critique Of Pure Reason Goodbye, Kant! English Project Muse Upcc Books

A best seller in Italy, Maurizio Ferraris s Goodbye, Kant! delivers a nontechnical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent overview of Immanuel Kant s Critique of Pure Reason. He borrows his title from Wolfgang Becker s Goodbye Lenin!, the 2003 film about East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which depicts both relief at the passing of the Soviet era and affection for the ideals it embodied. Ferraris approaches Kant in similar spirits, demonstrating how the structure that Kant elaborates for the understanding of human knowledge can generate nostalgia for lost aspirations, while still leaving room for constructive criticism. Isolating key themes and concerns in the work, Ferraris evaluates Kant s claims relative to what science and philosophy have come to regard as the conditions for knowledge and experience in the intervening two centuries. He remains attentive to the historical context and ideals from which Kant s Critique emerged but also resolute in identifying what he sees as the limits and blind spots in the work. The result is an accessible account of a notoriously difficult book that will both provoke experts and introduce students to the work and to these important philosophical debates about the relations of experience to science. Goodbye, Kant! Delivers A Nontechnical, Entertaining, And Occasionally Irreverent Overview Of Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason--cover. 1 Kant's Revolution 3 -- Why Start A Revolution 3 -- The Rationalists And The Library Of Babel 4 -- The Empiricists And Funes The Memorious 7 -- Refounding Metaphysics By Overturning The Point Of View 9 -- 2 The Basic Claims 13 -- The Scheme Of The Work 13 -- The Metaphysics Of Experience 14 -- Five Ontological Theses 16 -- Two Epistemological Theses 17 -- Where To Find Them 18 -- 3 What Is Inherited (examination) 19 -- New Wine In Old Bottles 19 -- Kant's Metaphysics 19 -- The Models Of The Critique Of Pure Reason 24 -- The Naturalization Of Physics 27 -- Consequences 30 -- 4 What Is Novel (examination) 33 -- Kant And The Platypus 33 -- Phenomenon And Noumenon 33 -- Deduction, Schematism, And Imagination 35 -- The Hundred Thalers 36 -- Synthetic A Priori Judgments 38 -- Are Synthetic A Priori Judgments Possible? 39 -- Dogmas Of Empiricism And Dogmas Of Transcendentalism 40 -- 5 The Transcendental Fallacy (examination) 43 -- A Semi-catastrophe 43 -- The Purloined Letter 44 -- A Mind-dependent World 44 -- An Avoidable Fallacy 46 -- 6 Conceptual Schemes And Phenomena 49 -- Over-powerful Spectacles 49 -- The Thesis Of Conceptual Schemes 49 -- Are Intuitions Without Concepts Blind? 52 -- Are Concepts Without Intuitions Empty? 56 -- The Thesis Of The Phenomena 57 -- 7 Space And Time 61 -- What Is The Transcendental Aesthetic? 61 -- Space 62 -- Time 63 -- The Meaning Of Mathematization 65 -- 8 Self, Substance, And Cause 67 -- Self: The World As Representations 67 -- Substance 71 -- Cause 72 -- 9 Logical Apparatus (examination) 75 -- A Complicated Contrivance 75 -- First Gadget: Judgments And Categories (metaphysical Deduction) 77 -- Second Gadget: Transcendental Deduction 80 -- Deduction A Theory Of Knowledge 80 -- Deduction B Transcendental Psychology 81 -- Third Gadget: The Schematism 82 -- How A Schema Works: Kant's Hints 83 -- How A Schema Works: A Speculative Hypothesis 85 -- The Timeline 86 -- Why It Doesn't Work 87 -- Could It Have Worked? 88 -- Fourth Gadget: Principles 88 -- Afterword On Reciprocal Action 89 -- 10 From Phenomena To Screwdrivers 91 -- The Deduction As Naturalization 91 -- The Critique Of Practical Reason 92 -- The Critique Of Judgment 93 -- 11 Reckoning With The Revolution 97 -- A Spectre Is Haunting Europe 97 -- Matrix 98 -- Kant And Talleyrand 101 -- An Iroquois In Paris 102 -- From Kant To Kafka 103. Maurizio Ferraris ; Translated By Richard Davies. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Translated From Italian. Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Introduction 12 From Königsberg to Kaliningrad 12 1. Kant’s revolution 14 Why start a revolution 14 The rationalists and the Library of Babel 15 The empiricists and Funes the Memorious 18 Refounding metaphysics by overturning the point of view 20 2. The basic claims 24 The scheme of the work 24 The metaphysics of experience 25 Five ontological theses 27 Two epistemological theses 28 Where to find them 29 3. What is inherited (Examination) 30 New wine in old bottles 30 Kant’s metaphysics 30 The models of the Critique of Pure Reason 35 The naturalization of physics 38 Consequences 41 4. What is novel (Examination) 44 Kant and the platypus 44 Phenomenon and noumenon 46 Deduction, schematism, and imagination 47 The hundred thalers 47 Synthetic a priori judgments 49 Are synthetic a priori judgments possible? 50 Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism 51 5. The Transcendental Fallacy (Examination) 54 A semi-catastrophe 54 The purloined letter 55 A mind-dependent world 55 An avoidable fallacy 57 6. Conceptual Schemes and Phenomena 60 Over-powerful spectacles 60 The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes 60 Are intuitions without concepts blind? 63 Are concepts without intuitions empty? 67 The Thesis of the Phenomena 68 7. Space and Time 72 What is the Transcendental Aesthetic? 72 Space 73 Time 74 The meaning of mathematization 76 8. Self, Substance, and Cause 78 Self: The world as representations 78 Substance 82 Cause 83 9. Logical apparatus (Examination) 86 A complicated contrivance 86 First Gadget: Judgments and Categories (Metaphysical deduction) 88 Second Gadget: Transcendental Deduction 91 Deduction A: Theory of knowledge 91 Deduction B: Transcendental psychology 92 Third Gadget: The Schematism 93 How a schema works: Kant’s hints 94 How a schema works: A speculative hypothesis 96 The timeline 97 Why it doesn’t work 98 Could it have worked? 99 Fourth Gadget: Principles 99 Afterword on reciprocal action 100 10. From phenomena to screwdrivers 102 The deduction as naturalization 102 The Critique of Practical Reason 103 The Critique of Judgment 104 11. Reckoning with the revolution 108 A spectre is haunting Europe 108 Matrix 109 Kant and Talleyrand 112 An Iroquois in Paris 113 From Kant to Kafka 114 Notes 118 Index 142 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 10 From Königsberg to Kaliningrad......Page 12 Why start a revolution......Page 14 The rationalists and the Library of Babel......Page 15 The empiricists and Funes the Memorious......Page 18 Refounding metaphysics by overturning the point of view......Page 20 The scheme of the work......Page 24 The metaphysics of experience......Page 25 Five ontological theses......Page 27 Two epistemological theses......Page 28 Where to find them......Page 29 Kant’s metaphysics......Page 30 The models of the Critique of Pure Reason......Page 35 The naturalization of physics......Page 38 Consequences......Page 41 Kant and the platypus......Page 44 Phenomenon and noumenon......Page 46 The hundred thalers......Page 47 Synthetic a priori judgments......Page 49 Are synthetic a priori judgments possible?......Page 50 Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism......Page 51 A semi-catastrophe......Page 54 A mind-dependent world......Page 55 An avoidable fallacy......Page 57 The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes......Page 60 Are intuitions without concepts blind?......Page 63 Are concepts without intuitions empty?......Page 67 The Thesis of the Phenomena......Page 68 What is the Transcendental Aesthetic?......Page 72 Space......Page 73 Time......Page 74 The meaning of mathematization......Page 76 Self: The world as representations......Page 78 Substance......Page 82 Cause......Page 83 A complicated contrivance......Page 86 First Gadget: Judgments and Categories (Metaphysical deduction)......Page 88 Deduction A: Theory of knowledge......Page 91 Deduction B: Transcendental psychology......Page 92 Third Gadget: The Schematism......Page 93 How a schema works: Kant’s hints......Page 94 How a schema works: A speculative hypothesis......Page 96 The timeline......Page 97 Why it doesn’t work......Page 98 Fourth Gadget: Principles......Page 99 Afterword on reciprocal action......Page 100 The deduction as naturalization......Page 102 The Critique of Practical Reason......Page 103 The Critique of Judgment......Page 104 A spectre is haunting Europe......Page 108 Matrix......Page 109 Kant and Talleyrand......Page 112 An Iroquois in Paris......Page 113 From Kant to Kafka......Page 114 Notes......Page 118 Index......Page 142