Alfredo Ferrarin

The Critique of Pure Reason—Kant’s First Critique—is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise, Kant’s oeuvre as a whole has been compartmentalized, the three Critiques held in rigid isolation from one another. Working against the standard reading of Kant that such compartmentalization has produced, The Powers of Pure Reason explores forgotten parts of the First Critique in order to find an exciting, new, and ultimately central set of concerns by which to read all of Kant’s works. Ferrarin blows the dust off of two egregiously overlooked sections of the First Critique—the Transcendental Dialectic and the Doctrine of Method. There he discovers what he argues is the Critique’s greatest achievement: a conception of the unity of reason and an exploration of the powers it has to reach beyond itself and legislate over the world. With this in mind, Ferrarin dismantles the common vision of Kant as a philosopher writing separately on epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics and natural teleology, showing that the three Critiques are united by this underlying theme: the autonomy and teleology of reason, its power and ends. The result is a refreshing new view of Kant, and of reason itself.

Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy

The Powers of Pure Reason

The goal of the present book is nothing less than to correct what Alfredo Ferrarin calls the standard reading of Kant s. Ferrarin argues that this widespread form of interpretation has failed to do justice to Kant s philosophy primarily because it is rooted in several uncritical and unjustified assumptions. Two are particularly egregious: a compartmentalization of the First Critique, and an isolation of each Critique from the others. Ultimately these two assumptions cause one to lose sight of the fact that the cognitive/epistemological functions laid out in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic are functions of an overarching pure reason of which the constitution of experience (and of a science of nature) is only one problem among others. This book, by contrast, argues that the main problem, which pervades the entire first critique, is the power that reason has to reach beyond itself and legislate over the world. Ferrarin pays close attention to both the Transcendental Dialectic and the Doctrine of Method where Kant lays out his conception of cosmic philosophy as embodied in the ideal philosopher."

Margit Ruffing

Claudio La Rocca

Stefano Bacin

Die in fünfjährigem Turnus im Auftrag der Kant-Gesellschaft durchgeführten Internationalen Kant-Kongresse sind weltweit die größten Philosophietagungen, die einem einzelnen Denker, seinem Werk und seiner Wirkung gewidmet sind. Die fünf Bände des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, der 2010 in Pisa stattgefunden hat, präsentieren unter dem Titel „Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht" insgesamt 25 Hauptvorträge und 341 Beiträge aus 14 Sektionen. Aus über 700 Einreichungen wurden von internationalen Gutachtern die Beiträge ausgewählt, die folgenden Sektionen zugeordnet sind: Kants Begriff der Philosophie; Erkenntnistheorie und Logik; Ontologie und Metaphysik; Ethik; Recht und Gerechtigkeit; Religion und Theologie; Ästhetik; Anthropologie und Psychologie; Politik und Geschichte; Wissenschaft, Mathematik, Naturphilosophie; Kant und der Leibnizianismus; Kant und die philosophische Tradition; Kant und Schopenhauer; Kant und die Folgen. Erstmals gibt es aufgrund einer Kooperation mit der Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft eine Sektion zu „Kant und Schopenhauer".

Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010

Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht

Elisa Magrì

Danilo Manca

Dermot Moran

This volume articulates and develops new research questions and original insights regarding the philosophical dialogue between Hegel’s philosophy, his heritage, and contemporary phenomenology, including, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. The collection discusses methodological questions concerning the relevance of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary phenomenology, addressing core issues revolving around the key concepts of history, being, science, subjectivity, and dialectic. The volume fills a gap in historiography, expanding the knowledge of the impact of Hegel's philosophy on contemporary philosophy and raising new questions on the transformation of transcendental philosophy in post-Kantian philosophy. The contributions gathered in this volume shed new light on issues related to the problem of scientific method in philosophy, on the philosophy of history, as well as on the dimension of subjectivity. By providing critical insights into Hegel’s philosophy and contemporary phenomenology, the book opens up new research perspectives recommended to philosophers and scholars of different traditions, especially classical German philosophy, phenomenology, and history of Western philosophy.

Alfredo Ferrarin

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