ABSTRACT

Recent philosophy has seen the idea of the transcendental, first introduced in its modern form in the work of Kant, take on a new prominence.
Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental, examining it not merely as a mode of argument, but as naming a particular problematic and a philosophical style.
With contributions engaging with both analytic and continental approaches, this book will be of essential interest to philosophers and philosophy students interested in the idea of the transcendental and the part that it plays in modern and contemporary philosophy.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

The idea of the Transcendental

chapter |15 pages

Kant's critical debut

The idea of the transcendental in Kant's early thought

chapter |26 pages

The fact of judgement

The Kantian response to the Humean condition

chapter |27 pages

Making sense

Husserl's phenomenology as transcendental idealism

chapter |25 pages

From the transcendental to the ‘topological'

Heidegger on ground, unity and limit

chapter |22 pages

The opening to infinity

Derrida's quasi-transcendentals

chapter |13 pages

Noam Chomsky's linguistic revolution

Cartesian or Kantian?

chapter |9 pages

Transcendental or epistemological?

McDowell's justification of empirical knowledge