Opus Postumum

This volume is the first ever English translation of Kant's last major work, Opus Postumum.

Immanuel Kant (Author), Eckart Förster (Edited by), Michael Rosen (Edited by)

9780521319287, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 February 1995

364 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

"...highly ambitious and very meritorious....these volumes will soon be the standard edition for citing Kant in English....if the first three volumes are any indication of what is to come, Kant scholarship will be well served by this edition. The three volumes under consideration meet the highest standards. Furthermore, the books are handsome and well produced. I am sure that Kant scholars who read Kant in English will not only find them most useful, but they will also be proud to have them on their shelves." Journal of the History of Philosophy

This volume is the first ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus Postumum, a work Kant himself described as his 'chef d'oeuvre' and as the keystone of his entire philosophical system. It occupied him for more than the last decade of his life. Begun with the intention of providing a 'transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics,' Kant's reflections take him far beyond the problem he initially set out to solve. In fact, he reassesses a whole series of fundamental topics of transcendental philosophy: the thing in itself, the nature of space and time, the concept of the self and its agency, the idea of God, and the unity of theoretical and practical reason. Though never completed, the text reaches a logical albeit not fully developed, conclusion.

Kant's Opus Postumum
Early leaves and Oktaventwurf
Toward the elementary system of the moving forces of matter
The ether proofs
How is physics possible? How is the transition to physics possible?
The Selbstsetzungslehre
Practical self-positing and the idea of God
What is transcendental philosophy?

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