It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy has had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself. The result of this "Copernican revolution" has seemed to many commentators the de-centering, if not the self-destruction, of the autonomous self. Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular approaches to the concept of freedom, and to the interpretation of the relation among the Enlightenment, Kant and post-Kantian thought.
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Amerik's book is rich, rewarding, and detailed. He combines a mastery of the German and English material...with a fine historical sensibility, a gift for clear writing, and a sharp analytical mind. He also displays a scrupulous intellectual honesty, claiming clear advantages for the 'modest' approach to Kant while noting and discussing the shortcomings of that approach." Ethics
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Amerik's book is rich, rewarding, and detailed. He combines a mastery of the German and English material...with a fine historical sensibility, a gift for clear writing, and a sharp analytical mind. He also displays a scrupulous intellectual honesty, claiming clear advantages for the 'modest' approach to Kant while noting and discussing the shortcomings of that approach." Ethics
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It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy has had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself. The result of this "Copernican revolution" has seemed to many commentators the de-centering, if not the self-destruction, of the autonomous self.Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular approaches to the concept of freedom, and to the interpretation of the relation between the Enlightenment, Kant and post-Kantian thought.
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The fate of Kant's critical system,
By John C. Landon "nemonemini" (New York City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy (Modern European Philosophy) (Paperback)
The appearance of Kant's great critiques initiated a revolution in philosophy, and yet for many he is beyond reach, as if contained and reformed by his successors, and their transformations of his starting point. Beginning with Rheinhold and Fichte this process began, and within Kant's own lifetime the core of his system was being overshadowed. Their contributions, ending with Hegel, are, of course, of great interest, and yet a subtle process of taking Kant as superceded has been their legacy, and it is quite misleading. This has tremendous ramifications even in our own time, for we can see that even post-Deweyan pragmatism with its 'naturalized hegelianism' is built on this secondary strain (to say nothing of this in Marxism). Ameriks thus produces a very interesting review of Kant's 'modest system' and its remorphed descendants wherein the resurrected phoenix of metaphysical absolutes produces its spectacles. Kant is accused of foundationalism now, and yet his 'modest system' in Ameriks' phrase is actually the original of most of this later attacks.
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From a contemporary perspective, this remark, like Kant's Critical writings in general, can easily appear to suffer from a laughable fascination with systematicity, and to indicate an attitude that does serious injustice to both theoretical and practical realities by distorting issues in order to satisfy an obsession with formal principles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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From a contemporary perspective, this remark, like Kant's Critical writings in general, can easily appear to suffer from a laughable fascination with systematicity, and to indicate an attitude that does serious injustice to both theoretical and practical realities by distorting issues in order to satisfy an obsession with formal principles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
practical foundationalism, radical primacy, restriction thesis, strong foundationalism, empirical apperception, modest system, theoretical philosophy, possessive sense, transcendental idealism, short argument, transcendental freedom, transcendental apperception, transcendental deduction, critical philosophy, pure practical reason Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reflection Theory, Cambridge University Press, Allen Wood, First Antinomy, Michael Friedman, Robert Pippin, Cartesian Claim, Cornell University Press, Dieter Henrich, Manfred Frank, Transcendental Dialectic, Crystal Clear Report, Daniel Breaieale, Daniel Breazeale, New York, Reinhold's Letters, Roderick Chisholm, Clarendon Press, Later Reinhold, Marcelo Stamm, Richard Rorty, Second Introduction, Unknowability Thesis, Wilfrid Sellars New!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 5 pages
- Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and Morality by Paul Guyer on page 339
- The Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions (Texts in German Philosophy) by J. G. Fichte on page 181
- Practical Philosophy (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on page 66
- Hegelian Ethics (Key Texts) by W. H. Walsh on page 314
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- Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy As Critical Interpretation by Karl Ameriks on page 210, page 275, and Back Matter
- Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Dieter Freundlieb on page 65, and Back Matter
- Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse and Authenticity in Being and Time (Modern European Philosophy) by Taylor Carman in Back Matter
- Kant (Blackwell Great Minds) by Allen W. Wood on page 145
- Enlightenment against Empire by Sankar Muthu in Back Matter
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