Kant's organicism : epigenesis and the development of critical philosophy / Jennifer Mensch
Imprint
Chicago : 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