The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy

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The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time.

Paul Guyer is Florence R. C. Muray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. The editor and translator of three volumes in the Cambridge Edition of The Works of Immanuel Kant, he is the author of over 150 articles and six books. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"For its comprehensiveness and quality, this volume should find a place in the library of every historian." --Scott Stapleford, University of Witwatersrand: Philosophy in Review