A Peculiar Fate : : Metaphysics and World-History in Kant / / Peter Fenves.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Fenves, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations and Translations --; Introduction: Raising the Question–Fate --; 1. Sterndeutung: Sky and Ground in the Universal Natural History --; 2. Fatalities: The Turn of Freedom in the “Idea for a Universal History” --; 3. Enthusiasm, Anamnesis: Freedom and Renewal in the “Renewed Question” --; Renewal Once Again --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501734526; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501734526
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Fenves.

Peter Fenves here investigates Kant's ongoing effort to bring metaphysical and strictly historical concepts of the world together in his presentation of world-history. Fenves argues that, far from being a mere illustration of his metaphysical principles, Kant's attempt to present history in its entirety played a vital role in the transformation of his concept of philosophy. A Peculiar Fate demonstrates for the first time how Kant's concern with history motivates and gives shape to his "discovery" that a systematic philosophical inquiry must rest on human freedom.