Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Pozzo, Riccardo

Titolo:

Review of J. Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason

Anno:

2016

Tipologia prodotto:

Recensione in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Recensione in rivista

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

Elettronico

Nome rivista:

NOTRE DAME PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS

ISSN Rivista:

1538-1617

N° Volume:

17 November 2016

Editore:

Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Frommann-Holzboog, 2007

Intervallo pagine:

1-3

Parole chiave:

Immanuel Kant; Critique of Pure Reason; Academic Programs

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

J. Colin McQuillan Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason Published: November 17, 2016 J. Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason, Northwestern University Press, 2016, 176pp., $34.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780810132481. Reviewed by Riccardo Pozzo, National Research Council of Italy On top of being an excellent dissertation defended at Emory under the direction of Rudolf Makkreel, which is already a sound recommendation for outstanding philosophical-historical work, this book profited from a substantial stay at the University of Halle, where the author was a guest of Jürgen Stolzenberg. With a great deal of research, J. Colin McQuillan has demonstrated mastery not only over Kant's own project and texts, but to a certain extent also over the milieu to which he belonged. It's not surprising that this erudite and seminal work of meticulous scholarship adds something new to our understanding of Kant's conception of critique. McQuillan's objective is to reconstruct the different ways the concept of critique was used during the eighteenth century, the relationship between Kant's critique and his pre-critical experiments with different approaches to metaphysics, the varying definitions of a critique of pure reason Kant offers in the prefaces and introductions to the first Critique, and the way Kant responds to objections. The core of his research, it seems to me, aims at answering the following question: when Kant started to work on the first Critique, what kind of discipline did he want to contribute to? Initial attention is being paid obviously to the celebrated but quite seldom read work of 1762 by Henry Home, Lord Kames, Elements of Criticism, which as Norman Kemp Smith claimed, could have been the source of Kant's conception of [1] critique. It is important to remember that when Kant discusses the critique of taste during the pre-critical period, he is almost always highlighting the difference between the merely empirical standards of taste and the rational principles of sciences like logic and metaphysics. This is apparent from Kant's logic lectures, where he frequently draws a contrast between aesthetics and logic when he wants to explain why logic is a science. Kant argues that logic is a science because it is based on rational principles that are established independently of experience. Aesthetics cannot be a science because it "derives its rules a posteriori" and "only makes more universal, through comparison, the empirical laws according to which we cognize the more perfect (beautiful) and the more imperfect." (p. 12) The preference for the Jäsche Logik and for Kant's printed works as opposed to an indeed parsimonious consideration of Kant's own manuscripts and the various elaborations of his lecture materials makes it clear from the start that McQuillan's goal is more systematic than historical. To his credit, however, he takes up one of Giorgio Tonelli's posthumous works that highlights the role played by the syntagm "critical logic" in the context on eighteenth-century logic.[2] It is surprising, though, that the name of Antonio Genovesi, the author of the most incisive work on the topic, the Elementorum artis logicae-criticae libri quinque of 1745, is misspelled as "Genovisi" throughout, which hints at a second-hand reading of Tonelli's paper (p. 15). Tonelli had claimed that the tradition of the ars critica is present in Alexander Baumgarten's works in logic and aesthetics, where he makes it clear that there is a logical critique as well as an aesthetic critique and that both of them have an important role to play in judgment (p. 16). McQuillan rejects this option. Quoting the Jäsche Logik [KgS 9:15] he points out: Unfortunately, Tonelli does not provide a single citation supporting his claim that Kant derived his conception of critique from Baumgarten or the ars critica tradition [listed by Tonelli]. This should not b

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http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/71326-immanuel-kant-the-very-idea-of-a-critique-of-pure-reason/

Id prodotto:

94751

Handle IRIS:

11562/954072

ultima modifica:

14 novembre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

Pozzo, Riccardo, Recensione a Review of J. Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason, «NOTRE DAME PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS» , vol. 17 November 2016 , 2016 , pp. 1-3

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