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Kant and the Subject of Critique
On the Regulative Role of the Psychological Idea
Avery Goldman (Author)
9780253223661
Paperback / softback, published 2 March 2012
264 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.449 kg
. . . original, interesting, important . . . . Goldman deserves credit for providing a sustained and resourceful argument that shows the importance of the notion of the subject for comprehending Kant's transcendental method. For this reason, the present volume should interest both Kant scholars and those interested in the German idealist tradition. Goldman has written an important book that addresses the metacritical objection to Kant—that in his inquiry into the conditions of knowledge, he makes cognitive and metaphysical claims that exceed the limits of cognition that the first Critique establishes.
Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for Kant, a reflective act must take place before any judgment occurs. Building on Kant's metaphysics, which uses the soul, the world, and God as regulative principles, Goldman demonstrates how Kant can open doors to reflection, analysis, language, sensibility, and understanding. By establishing a regulative self, Goldman offers a way to bring unity to the subject through Kant's seemingly circular reasoning, allowing for critique and, ultimately, knowledge.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Circularity of Critique
1. The Ideas of Reason
2. The Boundary of Phenomena and Noumena
3. The Designation of the Region of Experience in the Critique of Pure Reason
4. Transcendental Reflection: Interpreting the Amphiboly via Section 76 of the Critique of Judgment
5. The Paralogisms of Pure Reason: In Search of a Regulative Principle for Transcendental Reflection
6. Transcendental Method: The Orientation of Critique
Notes
Bibliography
Index