Bücher der Reihe Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

A novel reading of Kant's model for peace revealing the fascinating theoretical tensions that affect it.

This Element focuses on Kant's theory of conscience. It examines key texts in order to explain the theory and then deploys that theory to engage in recent philosophical debates.

Explores how Kant's account of religion provides the church with a role in establishing a cosmopolitan order of peace. In this context, politics and religion are social modalities in which humanity enacts its moral vocation to bring lasting peace among all peoples.

This Element examines the competing interpretations of Kant's larger political theory founding social welfare claims. It emphasizes the perspective and institutional commitments that Kant's model of citizenship entails and what is required to respect each as both a person and a participant in joint governance.

This Element defends a reading of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It disputes a long tradition concerning what the first formula (Universal Law/Law of Nature) attempts to do.

This Element is a study of how the power of imagination is, according to Kant, supposed to contribute to cognition. It is meant to be an immanent and a reconstructive endeavor, relying solely on Kant's own resources when he tries to determine what material, faculties, and operations are necessary for cognition of objects.

This Element considers Kant's account of the sublime in the context of his predecessors in the rationalist traditions and takes account of the difference between respect and admiration as the two main varieties of sublime feeling, and concludes by considering the role of Stoicism in Kant's account.