Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide

289 Pages·2014·2.09 MB·English

by  Alix Cohen (Editor)

KANT’S LECTURES ON ANTHROPOLOGY
Kant’slecturesonanthropology,whichformedthebasisofhisAnthro-
pologyfromaPragmaticPointofView(1798),containmanyobserva-
tions on human nature, culture and psychology, and illuminate his
distinctiveapproachtothehumansciences.Theessaysinthepresent
volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars,
offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures,
theirphilosophicalimportance,theirevolutionandtheirrelationto
Kant’scriticalphilosophy.Theyexploreawiderangeoftopics,includ-
ingKant’saccountofcognition,thesenses,self-knowledge,freedom,
passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism.
The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship
aswellasbeyond,andwillbeofgreatinteresttoupper-levelstudents
andscholarsofKant,thehistoryofanthropology,thephilosophyof
psychologyandthesocialsciences.
alix cohen isChancellor’sFellowattheUniversityofEdinburgh.
SheistheauthorofKantandtheHumanSciences:Biology,Anthropology
and History (2009), and has published articles in journals including
CanadianJournalofPhilosophy,KantianReview,HistoryofPhilosophy
QuarterlyandBritishJournalfortheHistoryofPhilosophy.
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edited by lara denis
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KANT’S
Lectures on Anthropology
A Critical Guide
edited by
alix cohen
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Contents
Listoftables pagevii
Listofcontributors viii
Preface xi
Listoftranslationsandabbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
alix cohen
1 Kant’slecturesonanthropology:someorientingremarks 10
werner stark
2 Self-cognitionandself-assessment 18
rudolf a. makkreel
3 Kantonthephenomenologyoftouchandvision 38
gary hatfield
4 Meatonthebones:Kant’saccountofcognitioninthe
anthropologylectures 57
tim jankowiak and eric watkins
5 Theanthropologyofcognitionanditspragmaticimplications 76
alix cohen
6 Affectsandpassions 94
patrick r. frierson
7 Theinclinationtowardfreedom 114
paul guyer
8 Empiricaldesire 133
allen w. wood
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vi Contents
9 Kantas“vitalist”:the“principiumoflife”inAnthropologie
Friedla¨nder 151
susan meld shell
10 Indispensableeducationofthebeingofreasonandspeech 172
g. felicitas munzel
11 Kantoncivilisation,cultureandmoralisation 191
catherine wilson
12 Cosmopoliticalunity:thefinaldestinyofthehumanspecies 211
robert b. louden
13 Whatayoungmanneedsforhisventureintotheworld:the
functionandevolutionofthe“Characteristics” 230
john h. zammito
Bibliography 249
Index 265
Tables
5.1 Varietiesofunderstanding page77
5.2 Humantypesandnature’spurposes 79
5.3 Cognitivedisparitiesbetweentemperaments 82
5.4 Cognitivedisparitiesbetweennations 82
5.5 Cognitivevariationsbetweengenders 82
9.1 ArrangementofFacultiesinAnthropologieFriedla¨nder 165
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List of contributors
alix cohen isChancellor’sFellowattheUniversityofEdinburgh.Sheis
the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and
History(2009),andeditorofKantonEmotionandValue(2014).Sheis
also Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy
andtheOxfordBibliographyOnline.
patrick r. frierson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gar-
rett Fellow in the Humanities at Whitman College in Walla Walla,
Washington. He is the author of Freedom and Anthropology in Kant’s
Moral Philosophy (2003), Kant’s Questions: What Is the Human Being?
(2013), and Kant’s Empirical Psychology (2014), and co-editor of Kant:
ObservationsontheBeautifulandtheSublimeandOtherWritings(2011).
paul guyeristheJonathanNelsonProfessorofHumanitiesandPhiloso-
phyatBrownUniversity,andFlorenceR.C.MurrayProfessorEmeritus
at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine books and
editoroffiveanthologiesonthephilosophyofKant,generalco-editorof
theCambridgeEditionoftheWorksofImmanuelKant,andaneditor
and translator of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of the Power
of Judgment, and Notes and Fragments within that series as well as of
Kant’sObservationsontheFeelingoftheBeautifulandSublimeandOther
WritingsintheCambridgeTextsintheHistoryofPhilosophy.Heisthe
authormostrecentlyofAHistoryofModernAestheticsinthreevolumes
(2014).
gary hatfield isAdamSeybertProfessorinMoralandIntellectualPhi-
losophyattheUniversityofPennsylvania.Hehaswrittenonthehistory
of modern philosophy and the history and philosophy of psychology
from medieval times to the present, including The Natural and the
Normative:TheoriesofSpatialPerceptionfromKanttoHelmholtz(1990),
DescartesandtheMeditations(2003),andPerceptionandCognition:Essays
inthePhilosophyofPsychology(2009).
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