Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics

O. Bradley Bassler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia Athens, USA.  He is the author of The Pace of Modernity: Reading with Blumenberg (2012), The Long Shadow of the Parafinite: Three Scenes from the Prehistory of a Concept (2015), and Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies (2017).

• 1. From Imagination to the Parafinite.- 2. The Parafinite and Self-Positioning.- 3. Principles and Categories From Leibniz to Peirce in Five Easy Steps.- 4. Spotlight on Mathematics.- 5. Adjunction and Relocation.- 6. Shelley's Vision.- 7. Conclusion.- Index.

“It is a fascinating and insightful argument that literature might help critical philosophy out of its current impasse by showing it its own historical conditions of possibility: allowing it to reflect upon its own modes of self-representation, as they have been constructed by the genealogies to which it is indebted.” (Merrilees Roberts, The BARS Review, Issue 52, 2018)