The Genesis Of Kant's Critique Of Judgment by John H. Zammito
A historical reconstruction of the intellectual context in which Kant forged his third Critique, showing how late eighteenth-century debates in aesthetics, natural history, and the emerging life sciences shaped his concepts of purposiveness and teleology. Drawing on correspondence, lecture materials, and scientific controversies, it traces how problems of organism and exchanges with contemporaries such as Blumenbach and Herder spurred the conception of judgment as a mediating faculty between nature and freedom. The study reframes the work as a historically contingent response to specific debates rather than a purely system-driven conclusion.
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