Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009172103)

In two often neglected passages of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant submits that the Critique is a 'treatise' or a 'doctrine of method'. These passages are puzzling because the Critique is only cursorily concerned with identifying adequate procedures of argument for philosophy. In this book, Gabriele Gava argues that these passages point out that the Critique is the doctrine of method of metaphysics. Doctrines of method have the task of showing that a given science is indeed a science because it possesses 'architectonic unity' - which happens when it realizes the 'idea' of a science. According to Gava's novel approach, the Critique establishes that metaphysics is capable of this unity, and his reading of the Critique from this perspective not only illuminates the central role of the Transcendental Doctrine of Method within it, but also clarifies the relationship between the different parts of the work.

Author: Gabriele Gava
ISBN-10: 1009172107
ISBN-13: 9781009172103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2023
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d