What is happening when someone has a mystical experience, such as
"feeling at one with the universe" or "hearing God's voice?" Does
philosophy provide tools for assessing such claims? Which claims
can be dismissed as delusions and which ones convey genuine truths
that might be universally meaningful? Valuable insights into such
pressing questions can be found in the writings of Immanuel Kant,
though few philosophical commentators have appreciated the
implications beyond his famous "Copernican hypothesis." In Kant and
Mysticism, Stephen R. Palmquist corrects this skewed view of Kant
once and for all. Beginning with a detailed analysis of Kant's 1766
work Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Palmquist demonstrates that in Dreams
Kant first discovers and explains his plan to write a new,
"critical" philosophy that will revolutionize metaphysics by laying
bare the limits of human reason. Palmquist shows how the same
metaphorical relationship-between reason's dreams (metaphysics) and
sensibility's dreams (mysticism)-permeates Kant's mature writings.
Clarifying how Kant's final (unfinished) book, Opus Postumum,
completes this dual project, Palmquist explains how the "critical
mysticism" entailed by Kant's position has profound implications
for contemporary understandings of religious and mystical
experience, both by religious individuals and by philosophers
seeking to understand such experiences.
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