Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics

• Main Author: Bassler, O. Bradley (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Aesthetics.; Metaphysics.; Poetry.; Poetry and Poetics.

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 philosoph...

Table of Contents:

• 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.