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A Peculiar Fate : Metaphysics and World-History in Kant / Peter Fenves.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501734526
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction: Raising the Question–Fate -- 1. Sterndeutung: Sky and Ground in the Universal Natural History -- 2. Fatalities: The Turn of Freedom in the “Idea for a Universal History” -- 3. Enthusiasm, Anamnesis: Freedom and Renewal in the “Renewed Question” -- Renewal Once Again -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Peter Fenves here investigates Kant's ongoing effort to bring metaphysical and strictly historical concepts of the world together in his presentation of world-history. Fenves argues that, far from being a mere illustration of his metaphysical principles, Kant's attempt to present history in its entirety played a vital role in the transformation of his concept of philosophy. A Peculiar Fate demonstrates for the first time how Kant's concern with history motivates and gives shape to his "discovery" that a systematic philosophical inquiry must rest on human freedom.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction: Raising the Question–Fate -- 1. Sterndeutung: Sky and Ground in the Universal Natural History -- 2. Fatalities: The Turn of Freedom in the “Idea for a Universal History” -- 3. Enthusiasm, Anamnesis: Freedom and Renewal in the “Renewed Question” -- Renewal Once Again -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index

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Peter Fenves here investigates Kant's ongoing effort to bring metaphysical and strictly historical concepts of the world together in his presentation of world-history. Fenves argues that, far from being a mere illustration of his metaphysical principles, Kant's attempt to present history in its entirety played a vital role in the transformation of his concept of philosophy. A Peculiar Fate demonstrates for the first time how Kant's concern with history motivates and gives shape to his "discovery" that a systematic philosophical inquiry must rest on human freedom.

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In English.

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