Table of Contents

Introduction Alix Cohen; 1. Kant's lectures on anthropology: some orienting remarks Werner Stark; 2. Self-cognition and self-assessment Rudolf A. Makkreel; 3. Kant on the phenomenology of touch and vision Gary Hatfield; 4. Meat on the bones: Kant's account of cognition in the anthropology lectures Tim Jankowiak and Eric Watkins; 5. The anthropology of cognition and its pragmatic implications Alix Cohen; 6. Affects and passions Patrick R. Frierson; 7. The inclination toward freedom Paul Guyer; 8. Empirical desire Allen W. Wood; 9. Kant as 'vitalist': the 'principium of life' in Anthropologie Friedländer Susan Meld Shell; 10. Indispensable education of the being of reason and speech G. Felicitas Munzel; 11. Kant on civilisation, culture and moralisation Catherine Wilson; 12. Cosmopolitical unity: the final destiny of the human species Robert B. Louden; 13. What a young man needs for his venture into the world: the function and evolution of the 'Characteristics' John H. Zammito; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

About the Author

Alix Cohen is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (2009), and has published articles in journals including the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Kantian Review, History of Philosophy Quarterly and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Reviews

'The volume addresses many important topics in Kant's anthropological writings and does so in a scholarly, philosophically sustained, and accessible manner. Alix Cohen is to be thanked for putting this excellent collection of essays together; it will prove a valuable resource to students and teachers of Kant's philosophy and is bound to attract the attention of intellectual historians and political philosophers.' Katerina Deligiorgi, University of Sussex