If there’s ever been one most important philosopher in modernity it is Immanuel Kant. Whatever your interests in modern philosophy — be it Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, even Nietzsche and Baudrillard and especially Accelerationism — you will not understand the full scope of their respective philosophies without having before grasped Kant!
This is because Kant revolutionises the very form of thought itself with his transcendental logic. So without understanding Kant on this level, for example, by assuming that Kant wrote a harmless epistemology, there is little chance to begin to see the thought-movement of modernity from Kant (and before him) to our day. Be that the ideological battlegrounds, the metaphysical collapse, the attempt of phenomenology to return to the things themselves, capitalist reproduction of objects without resistance — Kant is at the heart or start of it all. In fact, I would go as far as saying that if you want to understand the natural sciences and its models Kant is indispensable.
So I invite you most cordially to take on the challenge to read Kant this Spring. In honour of his 300th birthday no less!
My course begins this Saturday at 6pm UK time. Here is the link to join.
I see you on the Critical Path towards the transcendental revolution.
Why Kant Matters