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Kant's Organicism - Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy (Paperback)
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Kant's Organicism - Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy (Paperback)
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Offsetting a study of Kant's theory of cognition with a mixture of
intellectual history and biography, Kant's Organicism offers
readers an accessible portrait of Kant's scientific milieu in order
to show that his standing interests in natural history and its
questions regarding organic generation were critical for the
development of his theoretical philosophy. By reading Kant's
theoretical work in light of his connection to the life sciences -
especially his reflections on the epigenetic theory of formation
and genesis - Jennifer Mensch provides a new understanding of much
that has been otherwise obscure or misunderstood in it.
"Epigenesis"- a term increasingly used in the late eighteenth
century to describe an organic, nonmechanical view of nature's
generative capacities - attracted Kant as a model for understanding
the origin of reason itself. Mensch shows how this model allowed
Kant to conceive of cognition as a self-generated event and thus to
approach the history of human reason as if it were an organic
species with a natural history of its own. She uncovers Kant's
commitment to the model offered by epigenesis in his first major
theoretical work, the Critique of Pure Reason, and demonstrates how
it informed his concept of the organic, generative role given to
the faculty of reason within his system as a whole. In doing so,
she offers a fresh approach to Kant's famed first Critique and a
new understanding of his epistemological theory.
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