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Kant's Modern Debates

An Intellectual History

Catalina González Quintero

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English
Rowman & Littlefield
16 April 2026
Resituating Kant's work within the Western modern historical tradition provides insight into the originality of his views against the background of pervasive intellectual discussions in the 18th century.

Catalina González embeds essential aspects of Kant's epistemology, metaphysics, morals, and aesthetics into philosophical debates and discussions that, although central to modernity, have not been sufficiently explored by Kantian scholarship. These contexts include disputes between skeptics and anti-skeptics, debates over deism and natural theology, controversies about animal minds, discussions on the foundations of morality, and aesthetic conversations regarding the sublime.

The book's historical perspective is further supplied by a set of methodological reflections drawn from the heterogeneous field of studies of “intellectual history.”

It intertwines insights from the Cambridge School of Political Thought or the German Begriffsfgeschichte, and from a wide variety of historians of philosophy, with the analysis of Kant’s texts and Kantian scholarship to provide a novel and rigorous account of the historical formation of specific aspects of Kant's thought.
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Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781666934342
ISBN 10:   1666934348
Series:   Contemporary Studies in Idealism
Pages:   216
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Catalina González Quintero is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Colombia.

Reviews for Kant's Modern Debates: An Intellectual History

With a refreshing blend of historical scholarship and philosophical insight, this new book by Catalina González Quintero--an outstanding Latin American philosopher--is bound to become an obligatory reference point for those studying Kant and modern philosophy. From Prussian Anti-Skeptics and Pascal's 'terrifying wonder',,to the rationality of animals and the reception of Cicero's De Officiis by Garve and Kant; an invigorating plethora of topics and authors is here articulated into a systematic whole that may be described as a veritable challenge to the received canon. This volume underscores the truth that good philosophy is good history of philosophy, and that good historiography of philosophy is simply good philosophy. * Efraín Lazos, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico * This book is an important contribution to the historical and contextual understanding of Kant’s critical philosophy. In addition to placing Kant’s metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics in the context of (ancient and) modern philosophical debates, Gonzalez calls attention to the historiographical methods that historians of philosophy use to frame Kant’s contributions to modern philosophy and the ways they have shaped the reception of the critical philosophy. * J. Colin McQuillan, St. Mary's University, USA *


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