Kant in Brazil (North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy) (Volume 10)

A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant. The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy. Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil. Kant In Brazil Is A Collected Volume Of Essays Conceived At The 2005 International Kant Congress In Sao Paulo As A Way To Make Accessible To Anglophone Kant Scholars Some Of The Best Work On Kant Produced By Brazilian Scholars. The Availability Of This Material In English For The First Time Will Promote Interaction Between North American And Brazilian Scholars As Well As Enable Anglophone Readers Worldwide To Incorporate Excellent But Previously Neglected Work Into Their Own Debates About Kant. The Book Contains An Editor's Introduction Providing An Overview Of The Institutional Structure Of Kant Studies In Brazil. The Essays That Follow, Translated From Portuguese, Include A Survey Of The History Of Kant Studies In Brazil Over The Past Two Centuries As Well As Interpretive Essays That Span The Corpus Of Kant's Work In Theoretical Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, History, Aesthetics, And Teleology. Various Styles Of Philosophy Are Put Into Practice As Well: Analytical, Philological, Reflective, Comparative, Displaying The Broad And Diverse Nature Of Brazilian Philosophy.--publisher's Website. Introduction / Fredrick Rauscher -- Two Centuries Of Kantian Studies In Brazil / Daniel Omar Perez And Juan Adolfo Bonaccini -- Self-consciousness And Objective Knowledge In The Transcendental Deduction Of The Critique Of Pure Reason / Guido Antônio De Almeida -- Intuitive Knowledge And De Re Thought / João Carlos Brum Torres -- Predictive Judgments And Existential Judgments : Apropos Kant's Critique Of The Cartesian Ontological Argument / Raúl Landim -- An Experiment With Practical Reason / Valerio Rohden -- On The Faktum Of Reason / Darlei Dall'agnol -- Critique, Deduction And The Fact Of Reason / Guido Antônio De Almeida -- The Noncircular Deduction Of The Categorical Imperative In Groundwork Iii / Juli Esteves -- The Distinction Between Right And Ethics In Kant's Philosophy / Ricardo Ribeiro Terra -- Right And The Duty To Resist, Or Progress Toward The Better / José Bicolau Heck -- The Fundamental Problem Of Kant's Judicial Semantics / Zeljko Loparic -- Right, History And Practical Schematism / Daniel Tourinho Peres -- Cosmopolitanism : Kant And Kantian Themes In International Relations / Soraya Nour -- A Typology Of Love In Kant's Philosophy / Maria De Loudes Borges -- The Meaning Of The Term Germüt In Kant / Valerio Rohden -- Between Prescriptive Poetics And Philosophical Aesthetics / Ricardo Ribeiro Terra -- The Purposiveness Of Taste : An Essay On The Role Of Zweckmässigkeit In Kant's Critique Of Aesthetic Judgment / Pedro Costa Rego -- Freedom In Appearance : Notes On Schiller And His Development Of Kant's Aesthetics / Christian Hamm -- Reading The Appendix To Kant's Critique Of The Teleological Power Of Judgment / Pedro Pimenta -- Symbolization In Kant's Critical Philosophy / Joãosinho Beckenkamp. Edited By Frederick Rauscher And Daniel Omar Perez. Includes Some Articles Previously Published In Portuguese As: Kant No Brasil. São Paulo, Sp : Escuta, 2005. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Translations From Portuguese. Acknowledgments 9 Note on Sources and Abbreviations 15 Introduction 18 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil 41 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the 'Critique of Pure Reason' 62 3 Intuitive Knowledge and 'De Re' Thought 116 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument 164 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason 197 6 On the 'Faktum' of Reason 217 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason 249 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in 'Groundwork' III 301 9 The Distinction between Right and E1thics in Kant’s Philosophy 333 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better 362 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant’s Juridical Semantics 393 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism 447 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations 466 14 A Typology of Love in Kant’s Philosophy 515 15 The Meaning of the Term 'Gemüt' in Kant 535 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics 557 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of 'Zweckmässigkeit' in Kant's 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgement' 576 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics 605 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant’s 'Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment' 635 20 Symbolization in Kant’s Critical Philosophy 656 Bibliography of Works in German and English 681 List of Contributors 690 Index 697 EBC,Converted Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant. The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy. Frederick Rauscher is associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil