Perspectives on Kant’s Opus postumum

Giovanni Pietro Basile is currently associate professor in the Philosophy Department of Boston College. After completing studies in physics, theology, and philosophy, he earned his PhD in philosophy at the LMU Munich, where he also received the German Habilitation. He is a member of the Reviewers Panel of the journals Gregoriamum and Kant-Studien. Among his main publications are two books—Transcendance et finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de la raison pure de Kant, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005 and Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013—and several articles on Kant, Karl Jaspers, and Paul Ricœur.Ansgar Lyssy is currently researcher at the University of Heidelberg, working on a project on causality in Hegel, funded by a grant from the Thyssen Foundation. In 2020, he finished his Habilitationsschrift at LMU Munich, a yet unpublished monograph titled Humankind and Humanity in Kant. This research was funded by a research grant from the German Research Foundation. Notable publications include Kausalität und Teleologie bei G. W. Leibniz, Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner (Studia Leibnitiana, Special Issue No. 48), 2016, three anthologies on Kant and the philosophy of the eighteenth century, and several papers on Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and other related thinkers.

• Introduction Giovanni Pietro Basile & Ansgar Lyssy1. Kant’s Paradoxical Reception of Lavoisier Henry Blomme2. Filling Out Space: The Ether and the Dispositions of Matter in Kant's Opus postumum Ansgar Lyssy3. Physics as System in Fascicles X/XI of Kant's Opus postumum Stephen Howard4. The Analogical Use of Schematism from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Opus postumum Lara Scaglia5. The Forms of "Composition" and the Role of Mediating Concepts in Kant's Opus postumum Gualtiero Lorini6. Self-Affection in Kant’s Opus postumum and in the Critique of Pure Reason Dina Emundts7. A Kantian Answer to Aenesidemus: Appropriating Kant’s Doctrine of Self-Positing in the Opus postumum Bryan Hall8. Fichte or Baumgarten? On Kant’s Use of "Positing" in the Selbstsetzungslehre Lorenzo Sala9. Kant’s "Deification" of Reason in the Opus Postumum: An Attempt at Reconciling God and Autonomy Anna Tomaszewska10. François Marty’s Interpretation of Kant’s Opus postumum Giovanni Pietro Basile

"This book deals with many issues at stake in Kant’s Opus postumum in relation to his Critical Philosophy, physics and metaphysis. It provides a new step towards elucidating Kant’s rather enigmatic last work." – Ernst-Otto Onnasch, Utrecht University