Willi Goetschel

I wish I had read this before attempting Kant for the first time, all those years ago. So many introductions to Kant attempt to give a full and coherent overview, but they cannot do justice to the justified complexity of Kant's thought. Willi Goetschel's text is not an introduction, but rather an overview from the perspective of philosophical writing style as a way to attempt to understand what Kant sought to to in each of his texts. Usefully, Goetschel proceeds in time, building up to the style of the critique itself. Looking to earlier texts, we see that it wasn't that Kant "couldn't write" but that the difficulty we have in processing the words he put down on the page is a manifestation of the hard work of the critique itself. He also works through various clusters of metaphors as found in the First Critique, teasing out their implications, illustrating that Kant's writing style was integral to a new way of thinking. Excellent.… (plus d'informations)