Kant

Marcus Willaschek’s Kant: A Revolution in Thinking lays out, in crystalline prose with limpid precision, the full range of concerns and contributions made by the most important thinker of the modern world. I can think of few writers whose understanding of Kant and ability to explain him to the general public are so well matched. This is a truly valuable book. – William Egginton, author of The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of RealityKant’s political and moral philosophy continues to be of profound interest to contemporary readers both in its own right and as the basis of modern moral and political thought as found in the writing of John Rawls, Christine Korsgaard, Tim Scanlon, and many others. Contrary to usual practice, Willaschek begins there and only then turns to Kant’s equally profound but more abstract revolution in metaphysics. I do not know of a better introduction to Kant for general readers in any language than this engaging new book. – Paul Guyer, author of Kant’s Impact on Moral Philosophy and coeditor and translator of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel KantIn this remarkable book, one of the most cogent philosophers of our time, Marcus Willaschek, provides an inspiring and illuminating guide to the thought of one of the most important philosophers of all time, Immanuel Kant. – Robert Brandom, author of A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Marcus Willaschek is Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, where he is responsible for the German standard edition of Kant’s works. The author of four books, he is also coeditor of the three-volume Kant-Lexikon.