Kant in Context : The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic Hardback

by Daniel Patrick Kelly

Part of the Contemporary Studies in Idealism series

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Kant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic examines the introduction of Kantâ€™s critical philosophy through the lens of historical contextualization.

Daniel Patrick Kelly argues that Kantâ€™s seismic Copernican epistemic turn must be adequately positioned and understood within the German philosophical landscape that developed in Spinozaâ€™s wake.

This necessary historical analysis illuminates the development and comparative strength of Kantâ€™s emergent transcendental idealism.

However, in order to render the introduction of Kantâ€™s critical system sufficient to this historical task, this book heuristically organizes the contents of the Critique of Pure Reason to highlight the workâ€™s meta-philosophical historical conclusions.

In this revised take on Kantâ€™s Critique, Kelly argues that the "Transcendental Aesthetic" and subsequent "Transcendental Dialectic" emerge as foundational in understanding Kantâ€™s Critique as a profound historical-methodological development, as they justify and ground the call for his new and supporting science of cognition, placing the "Transcendental Analytic" as inherently secondary in this heuristic reading of the Critique.

The authorâ€™s overarching contention is that Kantâ€™s identification of the dialectical limitations of metaphysical reasoning provides a more solid justification for Kantâ€™s transcendental idealism than that of the novel postulates of the "Analytic."