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Category • Philosophy portal. Opus Postumum was the last work by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who died in 1804. Although efforts to publish the manuscript were made in 1882, it was not until 1936–1938 that a German edition of the whole manuscript appeared.
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Summary. Almost two centuries after Immanuel Kant's death, one of his major works is still virtually unknown in the English-speaking world; this in itself is remarkable and calls for an explanation.
Förster provides detailed analyses of the key problems of Kant’s Opus postumum and also relates them to Kant’s major published writings. In this way he provides unique insights into the extraordinary continuity and inner dynamics of Kant’s transcendental philosophy as it progresses toward its final synthesis.
Kant’s Opus postumum Terrence Thomson wrestles with Kant’s unfinished work to ask what we should expect from philosophy books. I have recently been immersed in trying to understand Immanuel Kant’s last text, his so-called Opus postumum. It is composed of sheets (or ‘fascicles’ or ‘convolutes’) that Kant began writing in the mid ...
Cambridge University Press, Feb 24, 1995 - Philosophy - 303 pages. This volume is the first-ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus postumum, a work Kant himself...
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The Opus postumum. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2023. Stephen Howard. Summary. Kant's final drafts, known as his Opus postumum, attempt to make what he calls a 'transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics.'
This volume is the first ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus Postumum, a work Kant himself described as his 'chef d'oeuvre' and as the keystone of his entire philosophical system. It occupied him for more than the last decade of his life.
