Kant and the Problem of Nothingness

Addison Ellis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo, Egypt.Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla (1925 - 2015) was a Venezuelan philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Venezuela, and rector-founder of the Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela.

• Translator’s Introduction by Addison EllisSpanish-English GlossaryKant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and CritiqueErnesto Mayz VallenillaPrologue Introduction 1. Nothingness and the Ens Rationis2. Nothingness and the Nihil Privativum3. Nothingness and the Ens Imaginarium4. Nothingness and the Nihil NegativumTranslator’s NotesName and Subject Index

Mayz Vallenilla’s Kant and the Problem of Nothingness offers the most thorough and insightful treatments of the intriguing Table of Nothingness in the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant´s fourfold division in the Table is superbly reconstructed by Mayz Vallenilla in this significant book of Latin American philosophical scholarship. The book puts into question, in a subtle and acute way, received ideas concerning temporality, experience and categorial thinking. It certainly constitutes a nice and refreshing counterpart to some of Heidegger´s most cherished thoughts about the ontology of time. Addison Ellis has done a superb philosophical translation from the Spanish, with detailed references to the original sources in German, together with aptly placed editorial notes explaining the historic and systematic context of the work.