Table of Contents

List of Contributors Preface Abbreviations of Kant's Works Introduction Part I: Key Writings 1. Key Works The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God / The 'Inaugural Dissertation' / Critique of Pure Reason / Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science / Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals / Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science / Critique of Practical Reason / Critique of Judgment / Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason / Toward Perpetual Peace / Metaphysics of Morals Part II: Kant's Contexts 2. Philosophical and Historical Context Academy prize essay / Aristotelianism / J. A. Eberhard / Empiricism / Frederick the Great / French Revolution / Garve-Feder review / Herder / Francis Hutcheson / Königsberg / J. H. Lambert / Moses Mendelssohn / Physical influx / Pietism / Prussia / School Metaphysics / Adam Smith / Spinoza 3. Sources and Influences Aristotle / Francis Bacon / A. Baumgarten / Cicero / C. A. Crusius / Descartes / Epicurus and Epicureanism / Leonhard Euler / Marcus Herz / Hume / Leibniz / Locke / G. F. Meier / Newton / Plato / Rousseau / Swedenborg / J. N. Tetens / Wolff Part III: Key Themes and Topics 4. Key Themes and Topics Part IV: Reception and Influence 5. Reception and Influence Until 1781: Responses to Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation / First Responses to the Critique of Pure Reason: The 1780s and Later / Kantianism in the 1790s: From Reinhold to Hegel / Hegel’s Appropriation of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy in the Jena Period / Schopenhauer's Reception of Kant / ‘Back to Kant’: Neo-Kantianism / Heidegger’s Phenomenological Reading of Kant / Analytical Kantianism / Analytic Approaches to Kant’s Ethics / Kantian Normativity in Rawls, Korsgaard and Continental Practical Philosophy Part V: Bibliography 6. Kant Bibliography Notes Index

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A comprehensive and practical study tool, introducing Kant's thought and key works and exploring his continuing influence.

About the Author

Gary Banham (1965-2013) was the Managing Editor of Kant Studies Online, an independent philosopher and Author of Kant's Transcendental Imagination (2006), Kant's Practical Philosophy (2003) and Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics (2000). Dennis Schulting was Assistant Professor of Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam from 2006 to 2011. He is now an independent scholar. He is the author of Kant's Deduction and Apperception (2012) and editor of Kant's Idealism (2011). Nigel Hems is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Reviews

This is a tremendously useful volume, including a valuable Introduction and an impressively thorough bibliography, detailed accounts of the individual works, sections on figures of influence, philosophical and historical context, and the reception and influence of Kant to the present, together with an encyclopedia of entries on key themes and topics. It will be of benefit to all interested in Kant on any level.
*Professor Richard E. Aquila, University of Tennessee, USA*

Eschewing the typically lengthy essays written by eminent Kant scholars, this collection is built like a true reference source. It features brief, alphabetical, cross-referenced articles written by dozens of lesser-known scholars on hundreds of core concepts and aimed squarely at novice researchers.
*CHOICE, L.A. Wilkinson, University of Tennesse at Chattanooga, USA*

This handy volume consists of more than one hundred entries from thirty-six authors...The expositions of the main points in Kant’s writings are very extensive (e.g., 17 pages on the Critique of Pure Reason), balanced and precise, and they also place Kant’s works within the contemporary setting in which they originated...The fact that all areas of Kant’s thought are so well integrated across theoretical and practical divisions, and also updated in accordance with recent contributions to Kant scholarship, is a further strength. No doubt, it is the large team of international Kant experts behind the companion, with a broad spectrum of interests and specialities, that has made this feasible. Among these are representatives of a new generation with a fresh approach to key elements in Kant’s philosophy...The Continuum Companion to Kant – with its accessible and inviting style of presentation – is definitely a very welcome addition to the growing body of general guides to Kant’s philosophy. It accords a uniquely analytic focus to the context of Kant’s views through separate entries that zoom in on specific influences and connections at a very detailed level...wise editorial choices [that] have ensured overall coherence and completeness.
*Kant Studies Online, Frode Kjosavik, University of Oslo, Norway*

This companion provides a solid guide for how to address such work, and understanding such influences (obscure or unknown to most non-specialists) and helps to shed light on certain idiosyncrasies in Kant's writing...the text provides very strong support with full citations for further research provided. For those looking for a bibliography of significant resources relating to Kant, this companion will provide plenty of support...those prepared with some familiarity should find much to engage with and to take up for further engagement.
*Metapsychology Online Reviews, Michael Larson, Point Park University, USA*