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240 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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Immanuel Kant spent many of his younger years working on what are generally considered his masterpieces: the three Critiques . But his work did not stop there: in later life he began to reconsider subjects such as anthropology, and topics including colonialism, race and peace. In Late Kant , Peter Fenves becomes one of the first to thoroughly explore Kant's later writings and give them the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Pleasures of Failure; Chapter 2 The Sovereign Sentence; Chapter 3 The Other Sovereign Sentence; Chapter 4 Out of the Blue; Chapter 5 Under The Sign of Failure; Chapter 6 In The Name of Friendship; or the Case for Inconsistency; Chapter 7 Revolution in The Air; or the End of the Human Regime on Earth; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
Biography
Peter Fenves is Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of A Peculiar Fate: Kant and World History (1991), “Chatter”: Language and History in Kierkegaard (1993), Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin (2001), and the editor of Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Kant, Transformative Critique by Derrida (1993).
