Kant's Transition Project and Late Philosophy - by Oliver Thorndike (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Kant's Transition Project and Late Philosophy</i> is the first study to provide a close reading of the connection between texts written by Kant during 1796 and 1798. Connecting Kant's unfinished book project, the<i> Opus postumum, </i>with the <i>Metaphysics of Morals</i>, it identifies and clarifies issues at the forefront of Kant's focus towards the end of his life. <br/> <br/> Labelled by Kant as the "Transition Project+?, the <i>Opus postumum</i> generates debate among commentators as to why Kant describes the project as filling a "gap+? within his system of critical philosophy. This study argues for a pervasive transition project that can be traced through Kant's entire critical philosophy and is the key to addressing current debates in the scholarship.<br/> <br/> By showing that there is not only a Transition Project in Kant's theoretical philosophy but also a Transition Project in his practical philosophy, it reveals why an accurate assessment of Kant's critical philosophy requires a new understanding of the<i> Opus postumum </i>and Kant's parallel late writings on practical philosophy. Rather than seeing Kant's late thoughts on a Transition as afterthoughts, they must be seen at the centre of his critical philosophy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>All good philosophy begins in wonder -and so does Thorndike's insightful new book. Its thesis is simple: the dualisms at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy make the problem of finding a lawful connection between the formal (rational, a priori) structures and their material (empirical, a posteriori) manifestation utterly pervasive. Setting up a system of mirrors that reflects how the "Transition Project+? shapes the development of Kant's late theoretical and practical philosophy alike, Thorndike invites us to wonder how we could have ignored what was confronting us all along. It is a major accomplishment in a field saturated by titles to make an old problem newborn.<br><br>Thorndike's work demonstrates compellingly the continuity and coherence of Kant's ambitions for the transcendental philosophy across the entire critical period all the way through the <i>Opus postumum</i> and the <i>Metaphysics of Morals</i> of his later years. From the outset, Kant set himself the object of developing a metaphysical foundation for the law-governed systematicity of actual experience in nature and in moral choice. The "Transition Project+? was no new impulse in Kant but the last great effort of the philosopher, in natural philosophy and also in ethical theory, to bring his system to closure.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Oliver Thorndike</b> is Lecturer of Philosophy at Loyola University, Maryland, USA.
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