Overview
- Offers a comprehensive discussion of Kant's reflections on human embodiment
- Explores the relation between practice and rationality in Kant’s philosophy
- Explores how the Critique of pure reason may be read as a critical reflection on human embodiment
Part of the book series: Studies in German Idealism (SIGI, volume 6)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Kant is generally conceived to have offered little attention to the fact that we experience the world in and through our bodies. This book argues that this standard image of the great German philosopher is radically wrong. Not only does Kant - throughout his career and in works published before and after the Critique of pure reason - reflect constantly upon the fact that human life is embodied, but the Critique of pure reason itself may be read as a critical reflection aimed at exploring some significant philosophical implications of this fact. Bringing this aspect of Kant's philosophy into focus is important, not only because it sheds new light on our understanding of Kant's work, but also because it is relevant to contemporary discussions in philosophy about embodiment, learning and practice. By taking his philosophy of embodiment into account, the author makes Kant stand out as a true contemporary in new and unexpected ways.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Body and Practice in Kant
Authors: Helge Svare
Series Title: Studies in German Idealism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4119-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4118-1Published: 08 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7048-7Published: 09 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4119-8Published: 27 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1571-4764
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9868
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 328
Topics: Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Man, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatism