A Companion to Kant (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405111976 ISBN 13: 9781405111973

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant’s work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.

• Written by an international cast of scholars
• Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical works
• Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy
  

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From the Back Cover:

This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant’s work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest. Written by an international cast of scholars, it covers all aspects of Kant’s philosophy and discusses all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-Critical works.

The Companion comprises a series of concise guides to key topics in Kant’s philosophy. Some of the essays offer lucid explanations of Kant’s claims, while others take up his other contributions in issues such as history, philosophy, science, morality, aesthetics, and social-politics. This volume offers anyone with an interest in philosophy an indispensable collection of work on Kant.

 

About the Author:

Graham Bird is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has been a leading Kant scholar for nearly 40 years, and is the author of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge, Philosophical Tasks, and William James. He is a past president of the Aristotelian Society and Chair of the UK Kant Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405111976
• ISBN 13: 9781405111973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Bird Graham