Disarming the double: Kant in defense of philosophy (1766).(Immanuel Kant)

From: The Germanic Review | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION: IN SEARCH OF THE ENEMY

In 1766, instead of the systematic breakthrough his admirers were anticipating, Immanuel Kant anonymously published his "Traume eines Geistersehers, erlautert durch Traume der Metaphysik," the text whose "scherzender Tiefsinn" provoked Mendelssohn to wonder whether "Hr. Kant die Metaphysik hat lacherlich oder die Geisterseherei glaubhaft machen wollen." (1) In this peculiar little treatise, Kant draws an analogy between the delusions of spirit-seeing and the abstractions of a speculative metaphysics, with the avowed intention of ...

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