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Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials
Contributor(s): Baumgarten, Alexander (Author), Fugate, Courtney D. (Translator), Hymers, John (Translator)
ISBN: 1472570138     ISBN-13: 9781472570130
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $37.57  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 110
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.60 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Modern
 
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Now available for the first time in English, this critical translation of Metaphysica draws from the original seven Latin editions, the Academy edition of Kant, and Georg Friedrich Meier's 18th-century German translation. To assist and support the reading of this crucial text, the translation features:

* historical and philosophical introductions and sketches
* extensive glossaries and notes
* clear reproductions of Kant's elucidations and handwritten notes
* Eberhard's insertions in the 1783 German edition

Used as a philosophical instruction for thinkers such as Kant, Mendelssohn, Abbt, Herder, and Maimon, Metaphysica is arguably one of philosophy's most influential texts. Equipped with supportive and illuminating introductory material, this clear and lucid translation presents scholars of Kant, German philosophy and the history of philosophy with an indispensable resource.

Contributor Bio(s): Fugate, Courtney D.: -

Courtney D.
Fugate is Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut,
Lebanon.

Hymers, John: - John Hymers is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at La Salle University, USA, where he teaches modern philosophy.Baumgarten, Alexander: - Alexander Baumgarten was born in Berlin on 17 June 1714 to Jacob Baumgarten, a Protestant evangelical preacher, and Rosina Elizabeth, née Wiedemannin. After being raised in the pietistic communities of Berlin and later Halle, Baumgarten was among the first to teach the controversial philosophy of Christian Wolff (1769-1764). By order of the king, he moved to Frankfurt on the Order in 1739, where he remained until his death in 1762. While at Frankfurt, Baumgarten wrote his most influential philosophical works: Metaphysics (1739), Philosophical Ethics (1740), and Aesthetics (2 Vols, 1750 & 1757). It is as formulated in these works that the Leibniz-Wolff tradition was chiefly communicated to later German philosophers, including Immanuel Kant. Today Baumgarten is also regarded as a central founder of modern aesthetics.