Kant's Reform of Metaphysics

Karin de Boer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She is the author of Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger's Encounter with Hegel (2000) and On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (2010), as well as of numerous articles on Kant, Hegel, classical German philosophy, and Heidegger. She also co-edited, with Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (2020).

• 1. Wolff, Crusius, and Kant; 2. The “Thorny Paths of Critique”; 3. Ontology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy; 4. Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads; 5. The 1781 Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding; 6. The Schematism of the Pure Understanding; 7. Transcendental Reflection; 8. Kant's Projected System of Pure Reason; Conclusion.

'De Boer has succeeded in writing a much-needed account of Kant's critical philosophy as the salvation - not the destruction - of metaphysics, correcting the epistemological focus of over a century of Kant scholarship. Her illuminating rereading in light of the metaphysics of Wolff and Baumgarten and her scrupulous reconstruction of the system of pure reason that Kant intended but never completed makes this book essential reading for anybody interested in Kant's philosophy.' Paul Franks, Yale University