Metaphysics of Nature in Kants Opus Postumum

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Metaphysics of Nature in Kants Opus postumum argues that Kants last, unfinished manuscript contains an attempt to work out the long-awaited system of pure speculative reason or metaphysics of nature Kant had been promising for many years. Challenging current readings of Opus postumum that claim to show how Kant was filling a gap in the Critical system, this book explores how the gap might be the system itself. Suggestive of an entirely different approach, Metaphysics of Nature in Kants Opus postumum argues that we must develop a more radical, open-ended reading of Kants last drafts, now known as Opus postumum (1796-1803), so as to situate them in a broader light. Thomson offers a new interpretation of the place and role of the hundreds of pages bundled into fascicles which Kant left on his desk when he died by taking his demand for a metaphysics of nature to be the seed from which they grow and the centre around which they orbit. By starting out with the often overlooked Architectonic of Pure Reason in Critique of Pure Reason, this book explores how Opus postumum is this future born into the present; it is Kants attempt to deliver on the Critical promise of a fully worked out metaphysics of nature.

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Terrence Thomson is an Independent researcher who received their PhD from CRMEP, Kingston University, UK.