Immanuel
Kant, pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment,
laid the foundations of modern Western thought.
Every subsequent major philosopher owes a
profound debt to Kant for his attempts to
delimit human reason as an appropriate object
of philosophical inquiry. And yet, Kant’s
relentless systematic formalism made him a
controversial figure in the history of the
philosophy that he helped to shape.
Introducing
Kant focuses on the three critiques of Pure
Reason, Practical Reason and Judgement. It
describes Kant’s principal formal concepts:
the relation of mind to sensory experience,
the question of freedom and the law and, above
all, the revaluation of metaphysics. Kant
emerges as a diehard rationalist, yet also
a Romantic, deeply committed to the power
of the sublime to transform experience.
Christopher
Kul-Want’s lucid text and Andrzej Klimowski’s
brilliant illustrations explain the reasons
for Kant’s undiminished importance in
contemporary philosophical debates.
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Christopher
Kul-Want is an art historian and philosopher.
He teaches at Goldsmith’s College in
London and at the Kent Institute of Art and
Design.
Andrzej
Klimowski is an award-winning designer and
illustrator and the author of two highly acclaimed
graphic novels, The Depository and The Secret.
