Béatrice Longuenesse
French philosopher known for influential work on Immanuel Kant, German Idealism, and the philosophy of mind and language; longtime professor at New York University.
Books
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1. Hegel's Critique Of Metaphysics
This study explains how Hegel reconfigures metaphysics by embedding it within the self-development of the Concept in his logic, turning critique into reconstruction rather than rejection. Building on and transforming Kant’s critical legacy, it follows the movement from being and essence to concept through categories, judgment, and inference, showing how classical antinomies are dissolved without dogmatic presuppositions. It clarifies how speculative logic grounds ontology in thinking’s activity, illuminating issues of necessity, contingency, teleology, and the subject–object relation.
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2. Kant And The Capacity To Judge
Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
A systematic reinterpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason that argues the capacity to judge is the core of human cognition, showing how the logical functions of judgment generate the categories and make experience possible. It traces the roles of synthesis, imagination, and apperception in linking general logic to transcendental logic, explaining how concepts unify sensible intuitions to yield objective knowledge. Along the way, it clarifies the schematism and the Analytic of Principles, challenges certain Fregean readings, and emphasizes the normative dimension of judgment in grounding objectivity.
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