Kant and the Unity of Reason (History of Philosophy Series) - Hardcover

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Kant and the Unity ofReason is a comprehensive reconstruction and a detailed analysis of Kant's Critique of Judgment. In the light ofthe third Critique, the book offers afinal inter­pretation of the critical project as a whole. It proposes a newreading of Kant's notion of human experience in which domains, as different asknowledge, morality, and the experience of beauty and life, are finally viewedin a unified perspective. The book proposes a reading of Kant's criticalproject as one of the most sophisticated attempts in the history of philosophyto articulate a complex notion of human sensibility as an alternative to botheighteenth-century empiricism and rationalism. The fundamental contribution ofrationality to human experience cannot be fully appreciated if the sensuouscomponent of experience is not adequately taken into account. For Kant,sensibility includes functions as different as sensation, intuition,perception, emotion, passion, drive, moral feeling, and feeling of pleasure anddispleasure. Kant's idea of “reflective judgment” is the peculiar discovery ofthe third Critique. Re­flectivejudgment articulates the interplay between sensibility and rationality, theworld of nature and the human mind, in order to constitute human experience andthe sphere of human intersubjective relationships. In the act of reflection,Kant's philosophy finally comes to reflect upon itself and the meaning of itscritical endeavor.

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