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 | | Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion (Modern European Philosophy) by Michelle Grier ISBN-10: 9780521663243 ISBN-10: 0-521-66324-5 ISBN-13: 9780521663243 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-66324-3 Hardcover 2001-02-05 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in accordance with ideas and principles that are "illusory." Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science. | ||
Book Description This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in accordance with ideas and principles that are "illusory." Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science. | ||
Download Description This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about metaphysical speculation and scientific theory. Indeed, she argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in accordance with ideas and principles that are 'illusory'. Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science. | ||
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Original And Persuasive Kantian Interpretation It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Michelle Grier's book. It could be said that it constitutes the most important insight into Kant's Critique of Pure Reason since it was published. It seems to have been recognized as such by contemporary scholars. One of the most prominent, Henry Allison, in his extensively revised book, Kant's Transcendental Idealism, owes, according to its author, not just new ideas about but an entirely new and different understanding of Kant's philosophy. An Amazon search of citations of Prof. Grier's book shows that prominent Kant scholars have taken note of her work. Her thesis, in its usual description, sounds tame. She argues from the Kantian text that what Kant calls illusion is and was meant by him to provide the fundamental understanding of what human reason is: illusion is not a deplorable mistake or sad limitation, but the enticement toward which reason must strive, giving it direction as well as energy. She shows in detail how this interpretation makes specific sense of the puzzles that have plagued or mislead scholars to date. Kant's work, one should not forget, is titled "The Critique of Pure Reason", and so a clarification, especially one that is on the one hand historically so recent but nevertheless on the other hand absolutely convincing and solidly right, is highly extraordinary. Her telling us what Kant was driving at when no one before her saw it makes her book a wonder glittering brightly among the many good commentaries on Kant's thought. | ||