Kierkegaard and the Structure of Imagination: Rethinking Thought Experiments with Kant and Ørsted - Hardcover

Helms, Eleanor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009594931 ISBN 13: 9781009594936

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Thought experiments play an important role in philosophy and philosophical theorizing. In this book Eleanor Helms examines thought experiments and charts their use in the work of Danish thinkers Hans Christian Orsted (1777–1851) and Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55), arguing that both were influenced by Kant. She demonstrates how key Kantian concepts shape the methods of both thinkers, especially Kant's claim that regulative ideas like the self, God, and nature cannot be directly represented. Kant proposed some ways in which we can make sense of, or 'cognize,' these kinds of abstract ideas, and Ørsted and Kierkegaard take up the practical challenge of realizing Kant's optimism by designing thought experiments to make these big ideas meaningfully accessible to individual thinkers. Helms's book is the first comprehensive study of Kierkegaard's use of thought experiments as a method, and reveals its significance for our contemporary understanding of how thought experiments work.

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Eleanor Helms is Professor of Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University. She is co-editor of The Kierkegaardian Mind (2019) and has published articles in numerous journals and collections.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1009594931
• ISBN 13: 9781009594936
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
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