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Author Kuehn, Manfred

Title Kant : a biography / Manfred Kuehn
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 544 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents Cast of characters -- Chronology of Kant's life and works -- Prologue -- Childhood and early youth (1724-1740) -- Student and private teacher (1740-1755) -- The elegant Magister (1755-1764) -- A palingenesis and its consequences (1764-1769) -- Silent years (1770-1780) -- "All-crushing" critic of metaphysics (1780-1784) -- Founder of a metaphysics of morals (1784-1787) -- Problems with religion and politics (1788-1795) -- The old man (1796-1804)
Summary "This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy." "It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia, living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view that Kant was a pure thinker with no life of his own, or at least none worth considering seriously. Manfred Kuehn debunks that myth once and for all." "Taking account of the most recent scholarship, Professor Kuehn allows the reader (whether interested in philosophy, history, politics, German culture, or religion) to follow the same journey that Kant himself took: from being a scholar narrowly focusing on the metaphysical foundations of Newtonian science, to emerging as a great thinker expounding the defense of the morality of an enlightened citizen of the world."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-529) and index
Notes English
Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2001
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Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
SUBJECT Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast
Subject Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography
Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophers
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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