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Challenges several dominant views on the relationship between Kant and Wittgenstein
Develops a novel interpretation of Kant's Refutation of Idealism as crucially concerned with the temporal determination of the owner of empirical representations
Offers a new discussion of Wittgenstein's distinction between the use as subject and use as object of "I" in the light of a neglected manuscript, MS 147
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Part IV
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About this book
This book suggests that to know how Wittgenstein’s post-Tractarian philosophy could have developed from the work of Kant is to know how they relate to each other. The development from the latter to the former is invoked heuristically as a means of interpretation, rather than a historical process or direct influence of Kant on Wittgenstein. Ritter provides a detailed treatment of transcendentalism, idealism, and the concept of illusion in Kant’s and Wittgenstein’s criticism of metaphysics. Notably, it is through the conceptions of transcendentalism and idealism that Wittgenstein’s philosophy can be viewed as a transformation of Kantianism. This transformation involves a deflationary conception of transcendental idealism along with the abandonment of both the idea that there can be a priori 'conditions of possibility' logically detachable from what they condition, and the appeal to an original ‘constitution’ of experience.
The closeness of Kant and post-Tractarian Wittgenstein does not exist between their arguments or the views they upheld, but rather in their affiliation against forms of transcendental realism and empirical idealism. Ritter skilfully challenges several dominant views on the relationship of Kant and Wittgenstein, especially concerning the cogency of Wittgenstein-inspired criticism focusing on the role of language in the first Critique, and Kant's alleged commitment to a representationalist conception of empirical intuition.
Reviews
“Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between two of the greatest Western philosophers, or in their rich legacy for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of mind.” (Hans-Johann Glock, Professor of Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Bernhard Ritter
About the author
Dr Bernhard Ritter is Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the Center for Subjectivity Research of the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Graz. He has published articles on Kant and Wittgenstein and co-edited Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge 1938–1941 (2017)."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Kant and Post-Tractarian Wittgenstein
Book Subtitle: Transcendentalism, Idealism, Illusion
Authors: Bernhard Ritter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44634-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44633-8Published: 13 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44636-9Published: 14 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44634-5Published: 12 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 346
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics