Kant on Language - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009239171 ISBN 13: 9781009239172

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Kant had thoughts on language, but his account of language is not explicit and cannot be found in any dedicated section of his works, so it needs to be philosophically reconstructed. The chapters in this volume investigate Kant's views on language from unique perspectives. They demonstrate that Kant's notions of thinking, knowing, communicating, and acting have implications for the philosophy of language: from the problem of empirical concept-formation to the categorial structure of experience, from the exhibition of aesthetic ideas to the role of analogies and metaphors, from poetry as the art of language to the moral relevance of rhetoric and the problem of persuasion, and from the source of Kant's philosophical vocabulary to the role of language in defining 'humanity'. The volume offers a new and distinctive interpretive context in which Kant's approach to language can be critically appreciated.

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About the Authors

Luigi Filieri is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa. He is the author of Sintesi e giudizio. Studio su Kant e Jakob Sigismund Beck (2020) and co-editor of both The Method of Culture: Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (with A. Pollok, 2021) and Kant on Freedom and Human Nature (with S. C. Møller, 2024).

Konstantin Pollok is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Kant-Forschungsstelle at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He is the author of Kant's Theory of Normativity: Exploring the Space of Reason (2017), Kants Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft: Ein Kritischer Kommentar (2001), and Begründen und Rechtfertigen: Eine Untersuchung zum Verhältnis zwischen rationalen Erfordernissen und prävalenten Handlungsgründen (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009239171
• ISBN 13: 9781009239172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Filieri Luigi, Pollok Konstantin