Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) Here we are, at the last post of this Kantian read-through. Our hope is that, if you do set out to read through Critique of Pure Reason some day, or if you know someone who does, you can refer that person to our blog…
Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) Yes, I know. We’ve now spilled over into the third year of this read-through, and it’s not early in 2017 any more. Hey, at least some things remained continuous over these last six months, right? No? Fair enough. At any rate, I’ll offer the…
Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) At this point it might take us longer to write these blog posts than it took Kant to write the Critique. So it goes. If it’s been a while since you read the last post (which is to say, if you’re reading these posts…
Series Index Whew! What a semester! As you might have guessed, my crazy teaching overload and Todd’s research responsibilities have pulled us away from Kant for the span of the fall semester, but fear not! We’re going to attempt a heroic final charge to blog through the second half of the book in the spring…
Series Index About the time Todd’s travel schedule allowed him to dig back into this series, my own summer travels picked up, and you know what that means: we just Kant get these done as quickly as we’d like. Yes, I had to make that joke. As with previous posts, I’ll be using the Penguin…
Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Transcendental Synthesis When Critique of Pure Reason (hereafter CPR–Todd had a good idea with that one) starts laying out how the mind stand capable, prior to any sensory experience, of having complex thoughts, the job of the Kant-editor gets tricky. Unlike most…
Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Before I launch into my first contribution to our joint project on Kant, a personal note. I read substantial excerpts of Kant’s first Critique as a freshman at Whitman College in our Core course, Origins of Modernism, so it is good to…
Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Once again a conversation about what we haven’t read has turned into an ambition to read. Those of you who listen to the Christian Humanist Podcast (and if you don’t you should) heard us say that neither Michial nor I can claim to have read Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure…