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Cooper, Andrew J. (2021) Reading Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft in England, 1796-1840. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 29 (3). pp. 472-493. doi:10.1080/09608788.2020.1807910 ISSN 0960-8788.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2020.1807910
Abstract
Most studies deny that Kritik der Urteilskraft played a significant role in the early reception of Kant’s philosophy in England. In this paper, I examine the notebooks, letters and lectures of several members of British medical and scientific institutions to tell a different story. Drawing from the writings of Thomas Beddoes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Henry Green and William Whewell, I identify a line of reception in which Kant’s critique of judgement’s power of reflection was used to establish the consilience of the mind’s anticipation of systematic order and the organization of natural bodies. Each discovered in Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft a shared principle for judgements of taste and scientific inquiry, made available through the mind’s affective response to the appearance of contingent order in nature. Their writings, I contend, evince a more sophisticated reception of Kant’s philosophy in England than has hitherto been recognized.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804 -- Influence, Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft, Romanticism -- England -- History -- 18th century, Judgment (Aesthetics), Judgment (Logic), Philosophy, English -- 19th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0960-8788 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 472-493 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09608788.2020.1807910 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal for the History of Philosophy on 18/09/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09608788.2020.1807910 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 September 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 March 2022 | ||||||||
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