Kant and the Limits of Autonomy

Susan Meld Shell

    • Introduction: Taking Autonomy Seriously

      • Part One: Getting There

    1. “Carazan’s Dream”: Kant’s Early Theory of Freedom
    2. Kant’s Archimedean Moment: Remarks in “Observation Concerning the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime”
    3. Rousseau, Count Verri, and the “True Economy of Human Nature”: Lectures on Anthropology, 1772–1781
    4. The “Paradox” of Autonomy

      Part Two: Complications on Arrival

    1. Introduction to Part Two: Late Kant: 1789–1798
    2. Moral Hesitation in Religion within the Boundaries of Bare Reason
    3. Kant’s “True Politics”: Völkerrecht in Toward Perpetual Peace and The Metaphysics of Morals
    4. Kant as Educator: Conflict of the Faculties, Part One
    5. Archimedes Revisited: Honor and History in The Conflict of the Faculties, Part Two
    6. Kant’s Jewish Problem
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • Index
  • Cover: Kant and the Limits of Autonomy

Susan Meld Shell is Professor of Political Science, Boston College.