Kant and the Capacity to Judge: Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason

by Béatrice Longuenesse

Book Overview

Kant claims to have established his table of categories or "pure concepts of the understanding" according to the "guiding thread" provided by logical forms of judgment. By drawing extensively on Kant's logical writings, B atrice Longuenesse analyzes this controversial claim, and then follows the thread through its continuation in the transcendental deduction of the categories, the transcendental schemata, and the principles of pure understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691043485
• ISBN13: 9780691043487
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"