This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kants conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kants critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kants thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kants philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kants thought.
1. Introduction; Gualtiero Lorini-Robert B. Louden.- Part One: Sources and Influences in Kants Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being.- 2. Elucidations of the Sources of Kants Anthropology; Holly Wilson.- 3. Anthropology A Legacy from Wolff to Kant?;Jean-Fran?ois Goubet.- 4. Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant; Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero.- 5. The Rules for Knowing the Human Being. Baumgartens Presence in Kants Anthropology; Gualtiero Lorini.- 6. Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being; Ansgar Lyssy.- Part Two: The Peculiarities of the Anthropological Knowledge in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics.- 7. The Moral Dimensions of Kants Anthropology; Robert Louden.- .8. Ein Spiel der Sinnlichkeit, durch den Verstand geordnet: Kants Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological Revolutiol"