11.29.09

Cambridge Guide to Kant on history

Posted in Booknotes, Kant at 4:47 pm by nemo

Kant’s ‘Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim’
A Critical Guide
Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Harvard University, Massachusetts
James Schmidt
Boston University

I notice that Cambridge has come out with an book of essays on Kant’s essay on history. I can feel sure they are trying to neutralize my interpretation of Kant’s essay in World History And The Eonic Effect. This essay is unmentionable in polite scholarly circles where the issue of Darwinism is too hot to handle and the dangers of dissent on evolution make something awfully close to lying, really really bad for Kant scholars, the case here.

My interpretation is open to confusion itself, since I am not a Kantian interpreting Kant, but attempting, with the use of the first paragraph of his famous essay to demonstrate the real significance of Kant and transcendental idealism for the study of history and evolution.
Kant’s essay is ambiguous, and his perspective contradicts itself as he throws the question into the future, and yet seems to answer his own question with another wrongheaded idea, asocial sociability.

I think that the correct meaning of what Kant said is illustrated by a study of the eonic effect. But try telling that to the cadre of brain dead academics, among others Kantians. I will have to review this book at Amazon and expose the situation, with a plug for my own book.
Check out:
Kant’s Challenge

Kant and the philosophy of history

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