Overview
- First monograph on Kant’s Anticipationen der Wahrnehmung; filling a great gap in secondary literature on Kant
- Offers an exploration of Anticipationen der Wahrnehmung and an overview of the post-Kantian debaste about anticipations of perception
- Offers a combined historical and systematic approach
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in German Idealism (SIGI, volume 11)
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Kant, in the Critique of pure reason, only dedicates a few pages to the principle of Anticipations of Perception and only a few critical studies are outspokenly dedicated to this issue in recent critical literature. But if one considers the history of post-Kantian philosophy, one can immediately perceive the great importance of the new definition of the relationship between reality and negation, which Kant’s principle proposes. Critical philosophy is here radically opposed to the pre-critical metaphysical tradition: "Reality" no longer appears as absolutely positive being, which excludes all negativity from itself, and "negation" is not reduced to being a simple removal, the mere absence of being. Instead, reality and negation behave as an equally positive something in respect to one another such that negation is itself a reality that is actively opposed to another reality. Such a definition of the relation between reality and negation became indispensible for post-Kantian Philosophy and represents a central aspect of Kantian-inspired philosophy in respect to Leibnizian metaphysics. The present work therefore departs from the hypothesis that the essential philosophical importance of the Anticipations of Perception can only be fully measured by exploring its impact in the Post-Kantian debate.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reality and Negation - Kant's Principle of Anticipations of Perception
Book Subtitle: An Investigation of its Impact on the Post-Kantian Debate
Authors: Marco Giovanelli
Series Title: Studies in German Idealism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0065-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0064-2Published: 30 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3438-8Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0065-9Published: 18 November 2010
Series ISSN: 1571-4764
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9868
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 252
Topics: History of Philosophy, Modern Philosophy