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Opus postumum

Immanuel Kant ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Eckart Förster ; translated by Eckart Förster and Michael Rosen

(The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant / general editors, Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood)

Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Kant's Opus postumum

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Note

Includes bibliography (p. lvi-lvii), factual notes (p. 257-288), and indexes (p. 299-303)

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Description

This volume is the first ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus Postumum, a work Kant himself described as his 'chef d'oeuvre' and as the keystone of his entire philosophical system. It occupied him for more than the last decade of his life. Begun with the intention of providing a 'transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics,' Kant's reflections take him far beyond the problem he initially set out to solve. In fact, he reassesses a whole series of fundamental topics of transcendental philosophy: the thing in itself, the nature of space and time, the concept of the self and its agency, the idea of God, and the unity of theoretical and practical reason. Though never completed, the text reaches a logical albeit not fully developed, conclusion.

Table of Contents

  • Kant's Opus Postumum
  • Early leaves and Oktaventwurf
  • Toward the elementary system of the moving forces of matter
  • The ether proofs
  • How is physics possible? How is the transition to physics possible?
  • The Selbstsetzungslehre
  • Practical self-positing and the idea of God
  • What is transcendental philosophy?

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