Kant’s Shorter Writings: Critical Paths Outside the Critiques

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This collection highlights the importance of Kants shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kants work, which typically focus on a specific period of his career, and on either his theoretical philosophy or his practical philosophy. These shorter works offer a framework for understanding several central questions of critical philosophy in the context of Kants complete corpus of writings. As such, this volume provides a ground-breaking approach to contemporary Kant studies by offering a new interpretive perspective to enable Kant scholars to advance their research projects. At the same time, it allows a general overview of Kants work for a broader non-scholarly audience interested in his critical philosophy and its context. I. Logics and Reality in Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Directions in Space, Non-Conceptual Form, and the Foundations of Transcendental Idealism .......................................................................... 2 Robert Hanna (Univ of Colorado at Boulden, USA) The Logical, the Real and the Existence of God in The Only Possible Argument (1763) ........................................................................................ 20 Jacinto Rivera de Rosales (UNED, Spain) The Duisburg Nachlaß as a Key to Interpreting Salomon Maimon’s Reading of the Transcendental Deduction of Categories .......................... 39 Alba Jiménez (UAM, Spain) Awakening from His Dogmatic Slumber: David Hume and Immanuel Kant’s Reception of Hume’s Sceptical Doubts in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ........................................................................ 55 Helke Panknin-Schappert (Univ. of Mainz, Germany) The Combined Force of Sensory Impressions: Kant’s View on the Benefits of Poetry to Philosophy .................................................... 68 Fernando M. F. Silva (CFUL, Portugal) II. Moral Questions: Intelligible Temporality and Obligation A Little Bit Evil? Reflections on Part One of Kant’s Religion .................. 84 Margit Ruffing (Univ. of Mainz, Germany) Mysteries of Feeling versus Horizons of Reflection: On the “Supersensible Substratum” of Experience and the (Public) Use of Reason ........ 96 Anselmo Aportone (Univ. of Tor Vergata, Italy) “Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me”: On Kant’s “Anthropological” Theodicy ................................................................... 116 Gualtiero Lorini (CFUL, Portugal) The End of All Things and Kant’s Revolution in Disposition .................. 132 Giovanni Panno (Univ. of Tübingen, Germany) Das Ende aller Dinge: The Duratio Noumenon and the Problem of the Atemporality of Gesinnung ........................................................... 154 Francesca Fantasia (Univ. of Palermo, Italy) Freedom and Obligation: The Moral Debate between Kant and Hegel (1781-1807) ............................................................................................. 171 Antonino Falduto (Univ. of Halle, Germany) High Doses of Hellebore ......................................................................... 180 Maria Borges (UFSC/CNPq, Brazil) III. Teleology and Philosophy of History On The Use of Teleological Principles in Biology .................................. 190 Renato Valois (UFRRJ, Brazil) Kant and Soemmerring: A “Two Letters Correspondence” between Transcendental Philosophy and Medicine ............................................... 200 Davide Poggi (Univ. of Verona, Italy) Kant’s Über das Organ der Seele and the Limits of Physiology: Arguments and Legacy ............................................................................ 214 Paolo Pecere (Univ. of Cassino and of Meridional Latius, Italy) Freedom and Nature in Kant’s Philosophy of History ............................. 231 Julio Esteves (UFFRJ, Brazil) Three Problems with the Theoretical Reading of the Idea of a Universal History in Context of the Critique of Pure Reason .................................. 246 Joel T. Klein (UFRN, Brazil) Kant’s “Historical Sign” as Sacrament: On the Distinction between Revolution and Church .............................................................. 266 Francesco V. Tommasi (Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy) Kant's Shorter Writings: Critical Paths Outside the Critiques IV. Enlightenment and Public Realm Argue but Obey? Questioning Kant’s Enlightenment ............................. 284 Robert Louden (Univ. of Southern Maine, USA) Variations on the Possible: “What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?” ........................................................................................... 301 Ferdinando L. Marcolungo (Univ. Verona, Italy) Political Issues in Kant’s Philosophy ...................................................... 313 Sandra Zakutna (Univ. of Prešov , Slovakia) Enlightenment as a Philosophical Drama: Kant and Foucault on the Political Field ................................................................................ 322 Jesús González Fisac (UCA, Spain) The Philosopher’s Public Calling: Problems and Implications of Kant’s Proclamation of the Imminent Conclusion of a Treaty of Perpetual Peace in Philosophy ................................................................................ 343 Alberto Pirni (Scuola Superiore di Sant’Anna, Italy) The Critique as a Passage of the Reason from the State of Nature to the State of Law ................................................................................... 357 Gaetano Chiurazzi (Univ. of Turin, Italy) The Concept of Work in some of Kant’s Shorter Writings ..................... 372 Soledad García Ferrer (UCM, Spain) V. Doctrine of Right and Cosmopolitanism Politics, Urteilskraft and the Realization of Right: Kant’s Contextual Perspective ............................................................................................... 386 Federica Trentani (UFSC, Brazil) Right as a Sign of a Philosophical Chiliasm: Freedom and its Evolution in Kant’s Opuscules ................................................................................. 398 Roberto R. Aramayo (IFS/CSIC, Spain) The Duty to Leave the State of Nature and Non-Coercive Rights in the Civil Condition .............................................................................. 410 Andrea Faggion (UEL, Brazil) Synthetic a Priori Propositions of Right: Kant on Political Obligation ... 426 Macarena Marey (UBA/CONYCET, Argentina) Kant’s Cosmopolitanism in Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht (1784) .......................................................... 438 Gustavo Leyva (UFABC/UAM, Brazil/Mexico) Passive Citizenship, Poverty and Peace: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism in the Shorter Writings ............................................................................ 460 Nuria Sánchez Madrid (UCM, Spain) Rethinking Kant’s Shorter Writings: Kant’s Philosophy of History and Today’s Cosmopolitanism ................................................................ 473 Marita Rainsborough (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany