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By Daniel Garber,Béatrice Longuenesse

For the earlier 2 hundred years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early sleek highbrow historical past. Kant's writings approximately Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume were so influential that it has usually been tricky to determine those predecessors on any phrases yet Kant's personal. In Kant and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse collect the various world's prime historians of philosophy to think about Kant with regards to those prior thinkers.

those unique essays are grouped in pairs. a primary essay discusses Kant's direct engagement with the philosophical considered Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, or Hume, whereas a moment essay focuses extra at the unique principles of those previous philosophers, with reflections on Kant's studying from the perspective of a extra direct curiosity within the past philosopher in query. What emerges is a wealthy and complicated photograph of the debates that formed the "transcendental flip" from early glossy epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of brain to Kant's serious philosophy.

The individuals, as well as the editors, are Jean-Marie Beyssade, Lisa Downing, Dina Emundts, Don Garrett, Paul Guyer, Anja Jauernig, Wayne Waxman, and Kenneth P. Winkler.

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