Kant: Vida y doctrina

by Cassirer, Ernst

En la presente obra, el lector encontrará una peculiar biografía del filósofo de Königsberg, que no sólo transita por las distintas etapas de su vida común reduciéndose al mero relato de sucesos y vicisitudes de orden externo, sino que profundiza en los aspectos cruciales que dieron por resultado todas las ideas plasmadas en su vasta obra, la que no sólo influyó decisivamente en la filosofía moderna, sino también en las corrientes del pensamiento contemporáneo.

Mediante un estilo accesible para no especialistas, el autor expone la esencia del sistema de Kant y los lineamientos generales y decisivos que sirven de armazón a su edificio discursivo, remontando la mirada sobre la variedad de los problemas aislados para abarcar en una visión de conjunto la totalidad del pensamiento kantiano.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Biography, History, German Literature

500 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1918

Reviews

[loafingcactus · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got through undergrad pretending to understand Kant, but now I actually do! This books is *fabulous* although it did take me almost six months to read- very slow going! Cassirer is an unapologetic Kant enthusiast, but he does speak of Kant's contemporary critics enough to understand various sides of the arguments.

[Franco · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ineludiblemente las biografías intelectuales (y acaso todas las biografías) corren el albur de contarnos más del biógrafo que del biografiado. A sabiendas de esa limitación, algunos biógrafos condescienden a indicar dónde comienzan sus conjeturas, cuándo intervienen sus interpretaciones, etc.

En las primeras páginas de este libro Cassirer indica que renunciará a ese propósito, depositando en el lector la responsabilidad de darse cuenta cuándo estamos conociendo no a la obra de Kant, sino a la idea que de ella tenía aquel.

Me resulta extraño el hecho de que esta biografía de Kant sea canónica: el Kant de Cassirer(-Cohen) es una sombra del Kant tal y como se nos presenta en sus obras.

[Ege]

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[Jon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it provides a clear analysis of some of Kant's denser works (which may rank with Hegel, Sartre, and Husserl as the "densest" philosophical writings ever), Cassirer focuses too much on Kant's life and passes over major developments in his actual philosophy. For instance, the keystone of his life and of his philosophy--Critique of Pure Reason--is actually hurried through at points, in an attempt to tie it more closely with his later works. Moreover, the development of Kant's moral philosophy is given relatively short shrift, in favor of extended passages on the general reception of his works throughout his career. Overall, Cassirer's explication of Kant's profound philosophical writings is useful and thought-provoking, but he spends too much time scurrying about in the hopes of weaving this philosophy into the bigger picture.

[v · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cassirer emphasizes Kant's thought above Kant's life, which serves to show that Kant lived the way he thought, and Cassirer's analysis of Kantian thought is standard, tight, uncontroversial. As for Kant the man, one gets an idea of a flexible but disciplined thinker, which belies his popular reputation as a stuffy robot. Selections from early works, letters, and accounts of Kant are well-chosen, and one has to admire Cassirer's effort. But his overall approach is so lockstep, and his writing so unimaginably dry (even the roughest stretches of the First Critique are, in my opinion, more readable), that this is a book you would do well to avoid.

[Polilecto · Rating 5 out of 5]

De la magistralidad del último neokantiano brota lo que él llama la introducción al pensamiento del filósofo de Königsberg. El sistema tan meticulosamente estructurado se nos presenta como una corona, en la que se sustentan tres joyas: el conocimiento, la ética y la estética. La tiara crítica aureola la vida del infatigable maestro, haciendo que sea inseparable su obra de su experiencia terrena e invitandonos a decir con él «el firmamento estrellado sobre mí y la ley moral dentro de mí».

[David Menčik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well written but in translation that I was reading it was difficult to recognize the difference between citations from Kant's philosophy and Cassirer's interpretation.

[Epsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

good points

[Plato · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books on Kant out there!

[Anderson Paz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nesse clássico, publicado em 1918, Cassirer apresenta o desenvolvimento do pensamento de Kant. Apesar de ser um texto denso que precisa de algumas leituras para ser bem assimilado, trata-se de uma obra essencial para compreender o criticismo kantiano.

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not a good biography book per se, but is more concerned with aspects of Cassirer's interest in Kant's ideas.

[jeremiah]

I came to this looking to hear more about Kant's Leben, but got too much Lehre.