Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique, or paraphysics, as a model for future philosophical endeavor. This philosophical practice is rooted in the concept of the indefinite power associated with the sublime in both Kant and Shelley's work, to which the notion of the parafinite or indefinitely large is extended in this book.

Continues to develop the concept of parahpysics as a form of visionary critique motivated by the enterprises of Kant and Shelley Situates Shelley in the context of romantic visionary design by comparing his venture to those of Blake and Keats Looks forward to visionary critique in the specific form of paraphysics as a philosophy of the future

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O. Bradley Bassler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia Athens, USA. He is the author of The Pace of Modernity: Reading with Blumenberg (2012), The Long Shadow of the Parafinite: Three Scenes from the Prehistory of a Concept (2015), and Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies (2017).

Inhalt

1. From Imagination to the Parafinite.- 2. The Parafinite and Self-Positioning.- 3. Principles and Categories From Leibniz to Peirce in Five Easy Steps.- 4. Spotlight on Mathematics.- 5. Adjunction and Relocation.- 6. Shelley's Vision.- 7. Conclusion.- Index.