Kant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic

Kant in Context explores the historical introduction of Kants critical philosophy, highlighting the significance of his transcendental dialectic and its meta-philosophical historical conclusions. It argues that Kants Copernican epistemic turn is best understood within the German philosophical landscape that developed in Spinozas wake, and that the Transcendental Aesthetic and Dialectic are foundational in understanding Kants Critique as a profound historical-methodological development.

Format: Hardback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Kant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic explores the introduction of Kant's critical philosophy through a historical lens, focusing on the German philosophical landscape that emerged in the wake of Spinoza. Daniel Patrick Kelly contends that Kant's Copernican epistemic turn must be situated within this historical context to fully appreciate its significance. By examining the development and comparative strength of Kant's emergent transcendental idealism, the book sheds light on the historical-methodological significance of Kant's critical system. To achieve this, the book reorganizes the contents of the Critique of Pure Reason to emphasize its meta-philosophical historical conclusions. In this revised interpretation of Kant's Critique, Kelly argues that the Transcendental Aesthetic and the subsequent Transcendental Dialectic are essential in understanding Kant's Critique as a profound historical-methodological development. They provide a justification and foundation for Kant's call for a new and supportive science of cognition, positioning the Transcendental Analytic as secondary in this heuristic reading of the Critique. The authors' overarching contention is that Kant's identification of the dialectical limitations of metaphysical reasoning offers a more robust basis for his transcendental idealism than the novel postulates of the Analytic.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666947427