The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

by Susan Meld Shell

Book Overview

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant's individual writings, but also the unity of his work and life experience.

Shell argues that the central animating issues of Kant's lifework concerned the perplexing relation of spirit to body...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226752178
• ISBN13: 9780226752174
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"