Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1959) (Paperback)

Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adornoa s intellectual world. Yet although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl and Kierkegaard, the closest he came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason and the other on the Critique of Practical Reason. This new volume by Adorno comprises his lectures on the former. Adorno attempts to make Kanta s thought comprehensible to students by focusing on what he regards as problematic aspects of Kanta s philosophy. Adorno examines his dualism and what he calls the Kantian a blocka : the contradictions arising from Kanta s resistance to the idealism that his successors, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, saw as the inevitable outcome of his ideas. But these lectures also provide an accessible introduction to and rationale for Adornoa s own philosophy as expounded in Negative Dialectics and his other major writings. Adornoa s view of Kant forms an integral part of his own philosophy, since he argues that the way out of the Kantian contradictions is to show the necessity of the dialectical thinking that Kant himself spurned. This in turn enables Adorno to criticize Anglo--Saxon scientistic or positivist thought, as well as the philosophy of existentialism. This book will be of great interest to those working in philosophy and in social and political thought, and it will be essential reading for anyone interested in the foundations of Adornoa s own work.

General

Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2001
Authors:	T.W. Adorno
Dimensions:	235 x 149 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-7456-2845-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN:	0-7456-2845-1
Barcode:	9780745628455

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