Kant in Brazil
A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant.

The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy.

Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.
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Kant in Brazil
A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant.

The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy.

Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.
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A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant.

The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy.

Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580468084
Publisher: University of Rochester Press, The
Publication date: 05/15/2012
Series: North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy , #10
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 388
File size: 574 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Frederick Rauscher
Daniel Omar Perez

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Sources and Abbreviations
Introduction - Frederick Rauscher

1. Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil - Daniel Omar Perez and Juan Adolfo Bonaccini
2. Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason - Guido Antonio de Almeida
3. Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought - Joao Carlos Brum Torres
4. Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument - Raul Landim
5. An Experiment with Practical Reason - Valerio Rohden
6. On the Faktum of Reason - Darlei Dall'Agnol
7. Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason - Guido Antonio de Almeida
8. The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III - Julio Esteves
9. The Ditinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy - Ricardo Ribeiro Terra
10. Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better - Jose Nicolau Heck
11. The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics - Zelijko Loparic
12. Right, History, and Practical Schematism - Daniel Tourinho Peres
13. Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations - Soraya Nour
14. A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy - Maria de Lourdes Borges
15. The Meaning of the Term Gemut in Kant - Valerio Rohden
16. Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics - Ricardo Ribeiro Terra
17. The Puposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmassigkei in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment - Pedro Costa Rego
18. Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics - Christian Hamm
19. Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment - Pedro Pimenta
20. Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy - Joaosinho Beckenkamp

Bibliography of Works in German and English
List of Contributors
Index
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