Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Sources and Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil 14
7. 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON 26
8. 3 Intuitive Knowledge and DE RE Thought 56
9. 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant’s Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument 81
10. 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason 98
11. 6 On the Faktum of Reason 109
12. 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason 127
13. 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III 155
14. 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant’s Philosophy 173
15. 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better 189
16. 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant’s Juridical Semantics 206
17. 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism 236
18. 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations 246
19. 14 A Typology of Love in Kant’s Philosophy 271
20. 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant 283
21. 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics 295
22. 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment 305
23. 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant’s Aesthetics 321
24. 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant’s Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment 337
25. 20 Symbolization in Kant’s Critical Philosophy 348
26. Bibliography of Works in German and English 359
27. List of Contributors 365
28. Index 369