Kant's Analytic

A critque and analysis of Kant's Analytic.

Jonathan Bennett (Author)

9780521093897, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1966

268 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.38 kg

'Mr Bennett, as was to be expected, has written a first-rate book on Kant's Analytic. It is vivid, entertaining, and extremely instructive. It will be found of absorbing interest both by those who already know the Critique and by those - if there are any such - who have a developed interest in philosophy, yet no direct acquaintance with Kant. These last it will surely drive to the text and, as surely, will drive them to approach it in a truly philosophical spirit. Bennett's Kant is not a giant immersed, or frozen, in time. He is a great contemporary - a little out of touch, admittedly, with recent developments in mathematics and physics - but one with whom we can all argue, against him, at his side, or obliquely to him. And so Bennett does argue, continuously, fiercely, and fruitfully; and summons to join in the argument, at appropriate moments, those older contemporaries, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume, and those younger contemporaries, Wittgenstein, Ryle, Ayler, Quine, Quinton, Warnock, and others. This is splendid, and a necessary corrective to that extraordinary isolation in which Kant tends to be islanded, partly indeed, by his own unique qualities, but partly by oceans of the wrong kind of respect. Bennett, continuously engaging his great antagonist, shows the right kind.'

Frontispiece Saul Steinberg
Preface
Analytical table of contents
Part I. Aesthetic: 1. Synthetic a priori judgements
2. The outer-sense theory
3. Space and objects
4. The inner-sense theory
5. Intuitions of space and time
Part II. Analytic of Concepts: 6. The metaphysical deduction
7. The categories considered
8. Transcendental deduction: the main thread
9. Transcendental deduction: further aspects
Part III. Analytic of Principles: 10. Schematism
11. Causal necessity
12. The axioms, anticipations, and postulates
13. The first analogy
14. The refutation of idealism
15. The second analogy
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]