Opus postumum

by Kant, Immanuel

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Title Statements

Full title :Opus postumum / Immanuel Kant ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Eckart Förster ; translated by Eckart Förster and Michael Rosen.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (lvii, 303 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511625169, 0511625162
oclc:ocn817953842
LC Classification:B2794.O62
Dewey Decimal:193

The history of the manuscript. The composition of the manuscript. The place of the manuscript in Kant's work. The development of Kant's argument. Note on the selection and translation -- 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?].