Introducing Kant. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Kant, a graphic guide
• Uniform Title: Kant for beginners
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Kul-Want & Andrzej Klimowski ; originating editor: Richard Appignanesi.
• Authors: Want, Christopher
• Editors: Appignanesi, Richard
• Other Names: Klimowski, Andrzej artist.
• Contents: Early life -- The Enlightenment -- Theories of mind and nature -- What is metaphysics? -- Kant's early career -- Early pre-critical work from 1746 to 1770 -- Period of silence, 1770-80 -- Critical philosophy -- The potential of judgement -- Three cognitive faculties -- Imagination and reflexivity -- Understanding, representation and reason -- The critique of pure reason (1781) -- The uncertainties of representation -- The central question -- The transcendental aesthetic -- The role of form -- Space and time -- The absences of space and time -- Two operations of imagination : apprehension and reproduction -- Understanding and intuition -- The categories -- Kant's four categories -- How does understanding occur? -- Kant's "Copernican revolution" -- How images (data) become possible -- Understanding and apperception -- The help of reason -- The illusions of understanding -- The paralogisms of pure reason -- The antinomy of pure reason -- The ideal of pure reason -- Kant's middle years -- Dining with Professor Kant -- The critique of practical reason (1788) -- Predestination or free will? -- Free will and desire -- Moral examples -- The antinomy of practical reason -- Unconditional freedom -- Effort and sacrifice -- Rethinking the faculties -- Absolute absence of moral reason -- The limits of consciousness -- Pure freedom and desire for knowledge -- The sacrifice of freedom -- The noumenon or "thing in itself" -- Mourning and sacrifice -- Suffering the absence of reason -- Freedom of the rational being -- The suprasensible system -- Subject to the law -- Free to think freedom -- The categorical imperative -- Avoid illusion -- Seek self-contentment -- Moral law cannot be represented -- Kant's physical obsessions -- The critique of judgement (1790) -- Analytic of the beautiful -- Judgement and feeling -- Judgement and form -- The unknown in its relation to judgement -- The place of feeling in judgement -- The sensuality of thought -- The priority of design -- Nature versus artifice -- Nature, design and ornament -- Genius transforms nature -- The order of the arts -- Romantic ideas of genius -- Genius and deformation -- Analytic of the sublime -- Burke's view of the sublime -- The mathematical sublime -- The dynamic sublime -- Experiencing the sublime -- Excess of freedom -- Freedom from nature -- Freedom, pain and desire -- Critique of teleological judgement -- Kant and religion -- Job, an Elightenment figure -- What is enlightenment? -- Private and public reason -- A royal warning -- Kant's last days -- After Kant -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Michel Foucault (1926-84) -- Jean-François Lyotard (b. 1924) -- Jacques Derrida (b. 1930) -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: London : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 193; Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc; Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography -- Popular works; Philosophes -- Allemagne -- Biographies -- Bandes dessinées; Philosophes -- Allemagne -- Biographies -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Philosophers; Germany; Biographies; illustrated books; Biographical comics; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Popular works; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Biographical comics; Graphic novels; Biographies; Ouvrages illustrés; Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction; Bandes dessinées biographiques; Comic books, strips, etc; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848319684; 1848319681
• Related ISBNs: 9781848312098; 1848312091
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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