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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.
On first examining the two formidable volumes- almost 1,400. of Kant's Opus postumum, one is struck by the disjointed, repetitious, and fragmentary character of it all. The so-called Opus is a bewildering. record of, at times, unrelated ideas which Kant jotted down over period of about 15 years.
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Mar 9, 2023 · 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.'
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. It cannot be explained entirely by the fact that Kant did not live to prepare the text for publication, leaving a stack of several hundred pages on ...
Abbreviations: KrV = Critique of Pure Reason; KPrV = Critique of Practical Reason; KU = Critique of the Power of Judgment; MVK3 = Metaphysik Vigilantius (K3); ML2 = Metaphysik (L2); MMron = Metaphysik Mrongovius; Groundwork = Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals; OP = Opus Postumum.
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.
2002. Purchase Online. This is the first book in English devoted entirely to Kant’s Opus postumum and its place in the Kantian oeuvre. Over the last few decades, the importance of this text for our understanding of Kant’s philosophy has emerged with increasing clarity.
