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This book is not aimed at exhuming Kant, but resurrecting him. It is inspired by the Critique of Pure Reason , yet is not about it: perhaps over-ambitiously, it tries to delineate not Kant's metaphysics of experience but the truth of the matter. The author shows rather than says where he agrees and disagrees with the first Critique , in so far as he understood that profound but obscure, over-systematic yet carelessly written, inspiring and infuriating, magnificent but flawed masterpiece. The book attempts a highly systematic presentation, in which the very form of the work reflects the content of the arguments. Kant is often derided for the extent to which he allows his penchant for architectonic structure to distort his insights, but it is argued that he had the right instinct in assuming that there must be some systematic way in which the necessary conditions for experience fit together. The contemporary trend in analytical philosophy seems to be towards ever more specialized, jargon-infested work, and there is a need to draw things together into a wider view that can be more generally appreciated.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Metaphysics of Experience
• Author: Leslie Stevenson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9780198246558
• ISBN: 0198246552
• ID: 04524022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 282 g
• Dimensions: 206 × 142 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2011

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