Avant demain: épigenèse et rationalité
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 30-09-2081
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Les Presses Universitaires de France
- ISBN
- 9782130630456
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the extended outcome of many years of study and reflection on Kant’s critical philosophy, and its reception in ‘continental’ European philosophy. It proposes a major new, epigenetic paradigm for the interpretation of Kant. It includes analyses of historical approaches to the meaning of ‘epigenesis’ in the first and third Critiques (Zöller, Zammito, Sloan), along with readings of the transcendental by Foucault, Lebrun, Canguilhem and Heidegger. It develops the scientific perspectives opened by epigenetics (Changeux, Edelman) and it stages a dialogue between pragmatism (Pierce) and speculative realism (Meillassoux).
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- Additional information
- A published English-language translation of this book is available on request if required.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- Is current continental philosophy making a break with Kant? It would appear so. The structures of knowledge of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason are being called into question: the finitude of the subject, the phenomenal given, a priori synthesis. ‘Relinquish the transcendental!’ is the imperative of the post-critical thinking of the twenty-first century. This book lays out a Kantian response. Its argument evolves as an epigenesis – the differentiated growth of an embryo – which, it claims, is the structure of the life of the transcendental itself, containing the promise of its transformation.
