Immanuel Kant at Walter de Gruyter
Within the wide range of philosophical works published by de Gruyter the writings of Immanuel Kant take center stage. Between Aristotle, the philosophy of the classical era and the philosophy of the 20th century, the oeuvre of the great philosopher is of fundamental importance to the field of philosophy and its influence, shaping both past and present of our publishing company.
In the year 2000, the Akademie Edition of Kant's Collected Writings celebrated its centennial anniversary. The first volume of the extensive Kant edition of the Königlichen Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften was published in 1900. With the Akademie Edition, the journal Kant-Studien and numerous other publications on Kant’s philosophy, de Gruyter publishers is known throughout the whole world as the first address for Kant publications.
Without Kant and his writings, a fruitful historical and systematic study of philosophy is not possible. Therefore, de Gruyter will continue to publish Kant’s work and to offer an international forum for the study and research of and with this outstanding oeuvre.
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Das Spiel in der Ästhetik
Systematische Überlegungen zu Kants "Kritik der Urteilskraft"
How is the aesthetic appreciation of objects to be understood? According to Kant, not as a case of cognitive knowledge. Using the free play of cognitive ability, he provides an answer which appeals above all through its intuitive plausibility. This book argues, however, that the role of play in aesthetics can only be clarified after we have fully considered the practicalistic tendency in Kant's approach. [more ...]
Die Bedeutung antiker Theorien für die Genese und Systematik von Kants Philosophie
In this first complete treatment of the topic, the author shows that, contrary to the opinion held by scholars for many years, it is not so much Plato and Aristotle as Hellenistic philosophy which plays the decisive role in Kant’s thinking. The three Critiques are used to develop the consistencies and breaks in Kant’s understanding of the Ancients and to illuminate their consequences for the interpretation of his work. [more ...]
Wille und Gegenstand
Die idealistische Kritik der kantischen Besitzlehre
Hegel's criticism of Kant's practical philosophy has been discussed in the history of reception mostly by means of the terms "morality and morals." In contrast, what kind of impact this criticism has had on the categories of the metaphysics of law has hardly been studied. The book pursues this question. [more ...]
Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry
This study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz’s seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz’s early, Kantian position. [more ...]
Kants Logik der Begriffe
Taking account of Kant's unpublished mss., the author presents a close textual interpretation of Kant's logic of concepts. He deals on the one hand with Kant's explanations of the form of all concepts per se, and on the other with Kant's theory of certain pure concepts contained within the cognitive faculty itself. [more ...]
Kants Theorie der Freiheit
Rekonstruktion und Rehabilitierung
In the present-day debate on free will, Kant's theory of freedom has been dismissed as bad metaphysics. This however leaves decisive questions partially unanswered. [more ...]