Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy

It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy has had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself. The result of this Copernican revolution has seemed to many commentators the de-centering, if not the self-destruction, of the autonomous self. Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular approaches to the concept of freedom, and to the interpretation of the relation among the Enlightenment, Kant and post-Kantian thought.

Author: Karl Ameriks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/26/2000
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780521786140

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