Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature, and Religion (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy)

Immanuel Kant’s work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant’s work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight chapters, a substantial introduction and a postscript, all newly written by an international cast of well-known authors. Each chapter focuses on particular aspects of a fundamental problem in Kant’s and post-Kantian philosophy, the problem of the relation between the world and transcendence. Chapters fall thematically into three parts: sensibility, nature and religion. Each part starts with a more interpretative chapter focusing on Kant’s relevant work, and continues with comparative chapters which stage dialogues between Kant and post-Kantian philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, Luce Irigaray and Jacques Derrida. A special feature of this volume is the engagement of each chapter with the work of the late British philosopher Gary Banham. The Postscript offers a subtle and erudite analysis of his intellectual trajectory, philosophy and mode of working. The volume is dedicated to his memory. "Immanuel Kant's work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant's work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight chapters, a substantial introduction and a postscript, all newly written by an international cast of well-known authors. Each chapter focuses on particular aspects of a fundamental problem in Kant's and post-Kantian philosophy, the problem of the relation between the world and transcendence. Chapters fall thematically into three parts: sensibility, nature and religion. Each part starts with a more interpretative chapter focusing on Kant's relevant work, and continues with comparative chapters which stage dialogues between Kant and post-Kantian philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, Luce Irigaray and Jacques Derrida. A special feature of this volume is the engagement of each chapter with the work of the late British philosopher Gary Banham. The Postscript offers a subtle and erudite analysis of his intellectual trajectory, philosophy and mode of working. The volume is dedicated to his memory"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Part I Introduction 1 Kant and the Continental Tradition Part II Sensibility 2 Kant on Intuition 3 Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant’s Transcendental Schematism 4 On Affective Universality: Kant, Arendt and Lyotard on Sensus Communis Part III Nature 5 The Role of Regulative Principles and Their Relation to Reflective Judgement 6 Disputing Critique: Lyotard’s Kantian Differend 7 Kant, Hegel and Irigaray: From ‘Chemism’ to the Elemental Part IV Religion 8 The Schematism of Analogy and the Figure of Christ: Bridging Two Types of Hypotyposis 9 The ‘Proper’ Tone of Critical Philosophy: Kant and Derrida on Metaphilosophy and the Use of Religious Tropes Part V Postscript 10 Remembering Gary Banham: Genealogy, Teleology, Conceptuality Contributors Index The essays disentangle complex exegetical knots that emerge in the interpretation of Kant's own views of the character of sensibility, the unity of nature, and the constitution of symbolic representation in religion.