AuthorMensch, Jennifer, author
TitleKant's organicism : epigenesis and the development of critical philosophy / Jennifer Mensch
ImprintChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015
Descript xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

SUMMARY

Distilling vast amounts of research on the scientific literature of the time, this title offers a look at Kant's famous first Critique and at the history of philosophy and the life sciences as well-- Provided by the publisher


CONTENT

Kant's organicism -- Generation and the task of classification -- Buffon's natural history and the founding of organicism -- Kant and the problem of origin -- Kant's eclecticism -- The rebirth of metaphysics -- From the unity of reason to the unity of race -- Empirical psychology in Tetens and Kant -- Kant's architectonic: system and organism in the Critique of pure reason


SUBJECT

  1. Kant
  2. Immanuel
  3. 1724-1804
  4. Philosophy of nature

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