Kant's Analytic

by Jonathan Bennett

Overview

'Mr Bennett, as was to be expected, has written a first-rate book on Kant's Analytic. It is vivid, entertaining, and extremely instructive. It will be found of absorbing interest both by those who already know the Critique and by those - if there are any such - who have a developed interest in philosophy, yet no direct acquaintance with Kant. These last it will surely drive to the text and, as surely, will drive them to approach it in a truly philosophical spirit. Bennett's Kant is not a giant immersed, or frozen, in time. He is a great contemporary - a little out of touch, admittedly, with recent developments in mathematics and physics - but one with whom we can all argue, against him, at his side, or obliquely to him. And so Bennett does argue, continuously, fiercely, and fruitfully; and summons to join in the argument, at appropriate moments, those older contemporaries, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume, and those younger contemporaries, Wittgenstein, Ryle, Ayler, Quine, Quinton, Warnock, and others. This is splendid, and a necessary corrective to that extraordinary isolation in which Kant tends to be islanded, partly indeed, by his own unique qualities, but partly by oceans of the wrong kind of respect. Bennett, continuously engaging his great antagonist, shows the right kind.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521093897
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1966
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He has published extensively on early modern philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece Saul Steinberg; Preface; Analytical table of contents; Part I. Aesthetic: 1. Synthetic a priori judgements; 2. The outer-sense theory; 3. Space and objects; 4. The inner-sense theory; 5. Intuitions of space and time; Part II. Analytic of Concepts: 6. The metaphysical deduction; 7. The categories considered; 8. Transcendental deduction: the main thread; 9. Transcendental deduction: further aspects; Part III. Analytic of Principles: 10. Schematism; 11. Causal necessity; 12. The axioms, anticipations, and postulates; 13. The first analogy; 14. The refutation of idealism; 15. The second analogy; Notes; Index.