Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2021)
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Through a reexamination of Immanuel Kant and his philosophical legacy, this volume explores the philosophic presuppositions of the possibility of progress and our belief in reason's capacity not only to improve the material well-being of humanity but also to promote our true vocation as moral beings.

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B2798.K222737 2021

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9780812252828   0812252829

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Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal Orientation.  (pages 1-16)Samuel A. Stoner & Paul T. Wilford
Chapter 1. Kant on Individual Moral Progress.  (pages 19-29)Oliver Sensen
Chapter 2. Should We Believe in Moral Progress?  (pages 30-46)Kate Moran
Chapter 3. Respect, Moral Progress, and Imperfect Duty.  (pages 47-61)Jens Timmermann
Chapter 4. Loneliness and Ambiguity in Kant’s Philosophy of History.  (pages 62-76)Rachel Zuckert
Kant’s Organic Religion: God, Teleology, and Progress in the Third Critique.  (pages 77-93)Naomi Fisher
Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of Culture.  (pages 94-114)Samuel A. Stoner & Paul T. Wilford
Chapter 7. Kant as Soothsayer: The Problem of Progress and the “Sign” of History.  (pages 115-134)Susan Meld Shell
Chapter 8. History, Progress, and Autonomy: Kant, Herder, and After.  (pages 137-152)Karl Ameriks
Chapter 9. Language, Embodiment, and the Supersensuous in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation.  (pages 153-164)Richard L. Velkley
Chapter 10. Hegel on the Conceptual Form of Philosophical History.  (pages 165-184)Mark Alznauer
Chapter 11. Relocating the Highest Good: Kierkegaard on God, Virtue, and (This- Worldly) Happiness.  (pages 185-201)Ryan S. Kemp
Chapter 12. Kant and Benjamin on Hope, History, and the Task of Interpretation.  (pages 202-216)C. Allen Speight
Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of Progress.  (pages 217-232)Robert B. Pippin

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