Kant's Modern Debates
An Intellectual History
Kant's Modern Debates
An Intellectual History
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Resituating Kant's work within the Western modern historical tradition provides insight into the originality of his views against the background of pervasive intellectual discussions in the 18th century.
Catalina González embeds essential aspects of Kant's epistemology, metaphysics, morals, and aesthetics into philosophical debates and discussions that, although central to modernity, have not been sufficiently explored by Kantian scholarship. These contexts include disputes between skeptics and anti-skeptics, debates over deism and natural theology, controversies about animal minds, discussions on the foundations of morality, and aesthetic conversations regarding the sublime.
The book's historical perspective is further supplied by a set of methodological reflections drawn from the heterogeneous field of studies of “intellectual history.” It intertwines insights from the Cambridge School of Political Thought or the German Begriffsfgeschichte, and from a wide variety of historians of philosophy, with the analysis of Kant's texts and Kantian scholarship to provide a novel and rigorous account of the historical formation of specific aspects of Kant's thought.
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Introduction
Part I. Kant and the Modern Disputes concerning Skepticism
Chapter 1. Kant and the Anti-Skeptics: The Emergence of a Critical Language and Point of View
Chapter 2. Kant, Skeptics, and Dogmatists on the Minds of Animals
Part II. Kantian Secular Metaphysics: Infinity and Deism
Chapter 3. Theism, Deism, and Polytheism: Kant's Critique of Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion
Chapter 4. Kant's and Pascal's Secular Infinities
Part III. Kant's Ethics and Aesthetics vis-à-vis Ancient Thought
Chapter 5. Kant's Groundwork and Cicero's Stoic Ethics
Chapter 6. Kant and Longinus's Rhetorical Sublimes
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| Published | 16 Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 216 |
| ISBN | 9781978768567 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Contemporary Studies in Idealism |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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