Research Catalog

Title

Kant, Shelley and the visionary critique of metaphysics / O. Bradley Bassler.

Author

Bassler, O. Bradley

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xv, 262 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique, or paraphysics, as a model for future philosophical endeavor. This philosophical practice is rooted in the concept of the indefinite power associated with the sublime in both Kant and Shelley?s work, to which the notion of the parafinite or indefinitely large is extended in this book.

Subject

• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
• Metaphysics
• Nothing (Philosophy)
• Humanism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. From Imagination to the Parafinite -- 1.1. From Imagination to the Parafinite (A First Pass) -- 1.2. Vision and Vision: A Framework for Conversation? -- 1.3. Philosophical Vision, and the Anomalous Vision of Kant -- 1.4. Pure Synthesis as Egological Self-Positioning -- 1.5. Kantian Prophylaxis and Husserlian "Platonism": A First Comparison of Two Transcendentalisms -- Bibliography -- 2. The Parafinite and Self-Positioning -- 2.1. Versions and Aversions of the Parafinite: Galileo, Leibniz and Kant (and More on Self-Positioning) -- 2.2. Second-Order Self-Positioning as Intimated in the Second Critique -- 2.3. Theoretical and Practical Self-Positioning in the Opus Postumum -- 2.4. Symbolism as Higher-Order Schematization and Blumenberg's Metaphorology -- Bibliography -- 3. Principles and Categories from Leibniz to Peirce in Five Easy Steps -- 3.1. Leibniz on the Principle of Sufficient Reason -- 3.2. Kant's New Elucidation -- 3.3. False Subtleties (Kant) and Four Incapacities (Peirce) -- 3.4. A New List of Categories (Peirce) -- 3.5. The Pragmatic Maxim and Higher-Order Empiriocriticism: Exponentiation of Self-Positioning -- Bibliography -- 4. Spotlight on Mathematics: Dislocations of Kant and Husserl -- 4.1. Brouwer: Dislocation of Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic -- 4.2. Hilbert: Relocation of Kant's Regulative Rationality -- 4.3. Tarskian Semantics: Dislocation of Kant's Truth Criterion -- 4.4. Analytic Philosophy (and a Comment on Hermeneutics) -- 4.5. Frege as Partial Husserl (Lothar Eley) -- 4.6. Marion's "Brouwerian" Reading of Wittgenstein -- 4.7. Van Atten's "Husserlian" Reading of Brouwer -- Bibliography -- 5. Adjunction and Relocation -- 5.1. Adjunction as Global Dislocation: Introducing a Second Level of Paraphysics by Kantian Example -- 5.2. Distribution as Relocation: A Third Level, and Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories -- 5.3. Blumenberg's Modernity: A Relocative Appreciation -- Bibliography -- 6. Shelley's Vision -- 6.1. Spirit Vision: Shelley's Poetic Modernism -- 6.2. Beginning and Beyond: Notes to Queen Mab -- 6.3. Triumphal Cars -- 6.4. Hesperus and Prosperus: An Exemplary Excursion -- 6.5. Proof Text for Locative Poetics: Shelley's Triumph (Part One) -- 6.6. Reading, Response; Criticism, Vision: A Goethean Digression -- 6.7. Proof Text for Locative Poetics: Shelley's Triumph (Part Two) -- 6.8. At Eton and Mont Blanc -- Bibliography -- 7. Conclusion -- 7.1. The Parafinite and the Imagination -- 7.2. Intimations of the Parafinite -- Bibliography.

Call Number

JFD 19-4090

ISBN

• 3319772902
• 9783319772905

OCLC

1022776480

Author

Bassler, O. Bradley, author.

Title

Kant, Shelley and the visionary critique of metaphysics / O. Bradley Bassler.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783319772912

Research Call Number

JFD 19-4090