Kant′s Organicism – Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy - Hardcover

Mensch, Jennifer

9780226021980: Kant′s Organicism – Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022602198X ISBN 13: 9780226021980

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Kant's Organicism Distilling vast amounts of research on the scientific literature of the time, this title offers a look at Kant's famous first Critique and at the history of philosophy and the life sciences as well. Full description

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Review:

"Jennifer Mensch's account of how Kant came to understand the thinking of the naturalists over the course of the eighteenth century and relate it to his own quest for a transcendental ground of reason in self-generation is very well wrought. She has made sense of a number of elements that I knew separately but had not seen in this compelling conspectus."--John H. Zammito, Rice University

Jennifer Mensch s account of how Kant came to understand the thinking of the naturalists over the course of the eighteenth century and relate it to his own quest for a transcendental ground of reason in self-generation is very well wrought. She has made sense of a number of elements that I knew separately but had not seen in this compelling conspectus. --John H. Zammito, Rice University"

In recent years a host of editions, translations, monographs, and articles have introduced Anglo-American readers to a Kant different from the anti-metaphysical epistemologist and rigorous ethicist of earlier scholarship. Kant has emerged as a pragmatic anthropologist, a physical geographer, and a natural historian. Jennifer Mensch s book seeks to unify the two pictures of Kant by tracking the formative background of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant s own original account of the biological development of individuals and species. Her provocative epigenesist reading challenges the distinction between matters of fact (quid facti) and grounds of validity (quid iuris) in Kant s account of a priori knowledge. --Gunter Zoller, University of Munich and University of Bologna"

"In recent years a host of editions, translations, monographs, and articles have introduced Anglo-American readers to a Kant different from the anti-metaphysical epistemologist and rigorous ethicist of earlier scholarship. Kant has emerged as a pragmatic anthropologist, a physical geographer, and a natural historian. Jennifer Mensch's book seeks to unify the two pictures of Kant by tracking the formative background of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's own original account of the biological development of individuals and species. Her provocative epigenesist reading challenges the distinction between matters of fact (quid facti) and grounds of validity (quid iuris) in Kant's account of a priori knowledge."--Gunter Zoller, University of Munich and University of Bologna

About the Author:

Jennifer Mensch teaches philosophy and the history of science and medicine at Pennsylvania State University.

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