Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World: A Transcendental Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment

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Kant announces that the Critique of the Power of Judgment will bring his entire critical enterprise to an end. But it is by no means agreed upon that it in fact does so and, if it does, how. In this book, Ido Geiger argues that a principal concern of the third Critique is completing the account of the transcendental conditions of empirical experience and knowledge. This includes both Kant's analysis of natural beauty and his discussion of teleological judgments of organisms and of nature generally. Geiger's original reading of  the third Critique shows that it forms a unified whole - and that it does in fact deliver the final part of Kant's transcendental undertaking. His book will be valuable to all who are interested in Kant's theory of the aesthetic and conceptual purposiveness of nature. abbreviations acknowledgments charge_of_reflective_judgment_and_the_conceptual_and_aesthetic_purposiveness_of_nature contents copyright_page dedication discursivity_and_the_conceptual_purposiveness_of_nature epigraph index introduction kants_empiricism kant_and_the_claims_of_the_empirical_world organisms_teleological_judgment_and_the_methodology_of_biology references significance_of_form_and_the_aesthetic_purposiveness_of_nature the_antinomy_of_teleological_judgment