Kant trouble : the obscurities of the enlightened /

"Kant Trouble" offers a highly original and incisive reading of some of the lesser known and less lucid aspects of Kantian thought. Diane Morgan focuses her investigation on a radical reappraisal of Kant's writings on architecture, monarchy and faith in progress. She challenges the wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Diane, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000
London ; New York : 2000
Series:Warwick studies in European philosophy
Warwick studies in European philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Three cases of doubling: Ka, Kant and Kantorowicz
  • Egyptian groping and the duplicity of the 'Ka'
  • Kantorowicz: kingly duplicity
  • Kant: the founding of the sovereign and regicide
  • 2. architectonic in Kantian philosophy I: of an uncertain affinity
  • 3. architectonic in Kantian philosophy II: Kant, Goethe, Benjamin: beautiful affinities and the architectural
  • 4. Devilish dissimulations in human nature: radical ethics and the evil abyss
  • Conclusion: the revelation of the impossibility of revelation: Kant, Hamann, Hegel.
  • 1 Three cases of doubling: Ka, Kant and Kantorowicz. Egyptian groping and the duplicity of the 'Ka'. Kantorowicz: kingly duplicity. Kant: the founding of the sovereign and regicide
  • 2. The architectonic in Kantian philosophy I: of an uncertain affinity
  • 3. The architectonic in Kantian philosophy II: Kant, Goethe, Benjamin: beautiful affinities and the architectural
  • 4. Devilish dissimulations in human nature: radical ethics and the evil abyss
  • Conclusion: the revelation of the impossibility of revelation: Kant, Hamann, Hegel.