Kant's Critique of Spinoza

Contemporary philosophers frequently assume that Kant never seriously engaged with Spinoza or Spinozism-certainly not before the break of Der Pantheismusstreit, or within the Critique of Pure Reason. Offering an alternative reading of key pre-critical texts and to some of the Critique's most central chapters, Omri Boehm challenges this common assumption. He argues that Kant not only is committed to Spinozism in early essays such as The One Possible Basis and New Elucidation, but also takes up Spinozist metaphysics as Transcendental Realism's most consistent form in the Critique of Pure Reason. The success -- or failure -- of Kant's critical projects must be evaluated in this light. Boehm here examines The Antinomies alongside Spinoza's Substance Monism and his theory of freedom. Similarly, he analyzes the refutation of the Ontological Argument in parallel with Spinoza's Causa-sui. More generally, Boehm places the Critique of Pure Reason's separation of Thought from Being and
Is from Ought in dialogue with the Ethics' collapse of Being, Is and Ought into Thought.


Author: Omri Boehm
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/02/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780199354801

About the Author

Omri Boehm teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the New School for Social Research. He earned his PhD at Yale and has done philosophical work in Heidelberg and LMU-Munich. His publications include work on Kant, Early Modern Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion. He is the author
of The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience (Continuum, 2007).

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