Introducing Kant by Christopher Want
Immanuel Kant, pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment, laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic formalism made him a controversial figure in the history of the philosophy that he helped to shape. Introducing Kant focuses on the three critiques of Pure Reason, Practical Reason and Judgement. It describes Kant's main formal concepts: the relation of mind to sensory experience, the question of freedom and the law and, above all, the revaluation of metaphysics. Kant emerges as a diehard rationalist yet also a Romantic, deeply committed to the power of the sublime to transform experience. The book explores the paradoxical nature of his ideas and explains the reasons for his undiminished importance in contemporary philosophical debates.-
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Introducing Freud
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Introducing Philosophy
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Introducing Ethics
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Introducing Nietzsche
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Introducing Logic
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Introducing Linguistics
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Introducing Foucault
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Introducing Capitalism
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Introducing Chaos
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Introducing Fractals
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Introducing Statistics
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Introducing Buddha
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Introducing Islam
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Introducing Wittgenstein
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Introducing Postmodernism
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Introducing Relativity
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Introducing Melanie Klein
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Introducing Jung
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Introducing Keynes
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Introducing Psychoanalysis
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Introducing Descartes
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Introducing Stephen Hawking
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Introducing Psychotherapy
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Introducing Sociology
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Introducing Chomsky
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Introducing Bertrand Russell
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Introducing Heidegger
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Introducing Eastern Philosophy
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Introducing Political Philosophy
Christopher Kul-Want is course leader of the MRes Art course and leader of the MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy pathway at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. He is the editor of Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader (Columbia, 2010), to which this volume is a companion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781840466645 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840466642 |
| Title | Introducing Kant |
| Author | Christopher Want |
| Series | Introducing |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Icon Books |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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