Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics, Courtney D. Fugate
Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics, Courtney D. Fugate
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Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics

Author: Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers

Narrator: Bob Souer

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/13/2018


Synopsis

This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant.

For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because of its impact on Kant's intellectual development, and because of the way it fundamentally informed the work of generations of German philosophers, including Moses Mendelssohn, Thomas Abbt, Johann Gottfried Herder, Solomon Maimon, Johann August Eberhard, and arguably even Georg Friedrich Hegel. However, Baumgarten's Metaphysics has only recently become available in reliable German and English translations, so that many scholars have been excluded from the discussion and the significance of Baumgarten's work has remained largely unexplored. Thus with the appearance of these translations, interest in Baumgarten's work has surged among both.

This volume aims to provide an anchor for this emerging discussion by presenting specially written essays by some of the scholars most responsible for Baumgarten's current reputation, together with some of the best young scholars in this emerging field.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beauregard on February 27, 2020

This is not a book but, rather, a series of essays. Each of the essays stand by themselves while contextualizing Kant’s thought and relating them through Christian Wolff, Leibnitz, of course Baumgarten, Spinoza and Descartes. Kant did not happen in a vacuum. To read Kant’s first critique one is inun......more