Kant announces that the Critique of the Power of Judgment will bring his entire critical enterprise to an end. But it is by no means agreed upon that it in fact does so and, if it does, how. In this book, Ido Geiger argues that a principal concern of the third Critique is completing the account of the transcendental conditions of empirical experience and knowledge. This includes both Kant's analysis of natural beauty and his discussion of teleological judgments of organisms and of nature generally. Geiger's original reading of the third Critique shows that it forms a unified whole - and that it does in fact deliver the final part of Kant's transcendental undertaking. His book will be valuable to all who are interested in Kant's theory of the aesthetic and conceptual purposiveness of nature.
By:
Ido Geiger
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108994767
ISBN 10: 1108994768
Pages: 239
Publication Date: 26 October 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: The transcendental undertaking of the Critique of the Power of Judgment; 1. The charge of reflective judgment and the conceptual and aesthetic purposiveness of nature; 2. Organisms, teleological judgment, and the methodology of biology; 3. The antinomy of teleological judgment; 4. Discursivity and the conceptual purposiveness of nature; 5. The significance of form and the aesthetic purposiveness of nature; Conclusion: Kant's empiricism.
Ido Geiger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is author of The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy (2007), and has published numerous journal articles on Kant's and Hegel's practical philosophy, theoretical philosophy and aesthetics.
