Kant and the Possibility of Progress : : From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties / / ed. by Paul T. Wilford, Samuel A. Stoner, Samuel Stoner.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) transformed the philosophical, cultural, and religious landscape of modern Europe. Emphasizing the priority of practical reason and moral autonomy, Kant's radically original account of human subjectivity announced new ethical imperatives and engendered new political ho...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal Orientation
  • PART I. KANT ON PROGRESS
  • Chapter 1. Kant on Individual Moral Progress
  • Chapter 2. Should We Believe in Moral Progress?
  • Chapter 3. Respect, Moral Progress, and Imperfect Duty
  • Chapter 4. Loneliness and Ambiguity in Kant’s Philosophy of History
  • Chapter 5. Kant’s Organic Religion: God, Teleology, and Progress in the Third Critique
  • Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of Culture
  • Chapter 7. Kant as Soothsayer: The Problem of Progress and the “Sign” of History
  • PART II. PROGRESS AFTER KANT
  • Chapter 8. History, Progress, and Autonomy: Kant, Herder, and After
  • Chapter 9. Language, Embodiment, and the Supersensuous in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation
  • Chapter 10. Hegel on the Conceptual Form of Philosophical History
  • Chapter 11. Relocating the Highest Good: Kierkegaard on God, Virtue, and (This- Worldly) Happiness
  • Chapter 12. Kant and Benjamin on Hope, History, and the Task of Interpretation
  • Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of Progress
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments