Introducing Kant (Introducing...)

The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This is an examination of one of the most famous philosophers of the Enlightenment. Introducing Kant focuses on the three critiques of Pure Reason, Practical Reason and Judgment. It describes Kant's main formal concepts: the relation of mind to sensory experience, the question of freedom and the law and, above all, the revaluation of metaphysics. Kant emerges as a diehard rationalist, yet also a Romantic, deeply committed to the power of the sublime to transform experience. Christopher Want's lucid text, brilliantly illustrated by award-winning artist, Andrzej Klimowski, explores the paradoxical nature of his ideas and explains the reasons for his undiminished importance in contemporary philosophical debates. "Introducing Kant focuses on the three critiques of Pure Reason, Practical reason and Judgement. It describes Kant's principal formal concepts: the relation of mind to sensory experience, the question of freedom and the law and, above all, the revaluation of metaphysics. Kant emerges as a diehard rationalist, yet also a Romantic, deeply committed to the power of the sublime to transform experience"-- Back cover Immanuel Kant, philosopher of the Enlightenment, laid the foundations of modern Western thought. This work focuses on the three critiques of pure reason, practical reason and judgement. It describes Kant's main formal concepts and explores the paradoxical nature of his ideas. One in a series of beginners' guides to philosophical subjects, this book focuses on Immanuel Kant's well-known critiques of Pure Reason, Practical Reason and Judgement, and leads the reader through the concepts of his work Situated at the threshold of modern thought, Kant's philosophy is marked by scepticism and a loss of faith in both religion and metaphysics.