Abstract
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason closes with a chapter on “the History of Pure Reason,” Die Geschichte der reinen Vernunft.1 This is a very short text, four pages in all, which is introduced with the following words: “This title stands here only in order to indicate one remaining division of the system, which must be completed in the future.”2 Here we find, at the very least, the announcement of a connection between reason and history. To specify this connection completely, however, is a task that Kant bequeaths to posterity.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
Notes
Immanuel Kant, Lose Blätter aus Kants Nachlaβ, ed. Rudolf Reicke, vol. 2 (Königsberg: Ferdinand Beyer, 1895) 286
Edmund Husserl, “The Origin of Geometry,” tr. David Carr, in The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, tr. David Carr (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970) 353–378
Foucault speaks in this connection of “repeatable materiality” [matérialité répétable]. Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge, tr. Alan Sheridan (London: Routledge, 2007) 114
Cf. Jacques Derrida, “Differance,” in Speech and Phenomena, tr. David B. Allison (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973) 129–160
Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, tr. Reidar Thomte (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980) 113
Nietzsche, The Gay Science, tr. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1974) 279
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, tr. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London: Continuum, 2004) 342
Karl Marx, Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, vol. 5 of Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) (Berlin: Dietz, 1983)
See Alexandre Koyré, Etudes d’histoirede la pensée philosophique (Paris: Gallimard, 1971) p. 357
Gaston Bachelard, Le nouvel esprit scientifique (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1971) 16
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2013 Søren Gosvig Olesen
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Olesen, S.G. (2013). The History of the Subject. In: Transcendental History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277787_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277787_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-44737-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-27778-7
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy CollectionPhilosophy and Religion (R0)