کانت

by Allen W. Wood, عقیل فولادی (مترجم)

Kant‬, Allen W. Wood

عنوان: کانت؛ نویسنده: آلن و. وود؛ مترجم: عقیل فولادی؛ تهران ‏‫: نگاه معاصر‬‏‫، ‏‫1396؛ در 308ص؛ شابک 9789649940632؛ موضوع: امانوئل کانت از سال 1724 میلادی تا سال 1804 میلادی - سده 21 م

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Book Club, Biography

308 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Allen Wood's interests are in the history of modern philosophy, especially Kant and German idealism, and in ethics and social philosophy. He was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington. His B. A. is from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, his Ph.D. at Yale University. Wood has held regular professorships at Cornell University, Yale University, and Stanford University, where he is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus. He has also held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, University of California at San Diego and Oxford University, where he was Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor in 2005. During year-long periods of research, he has been affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin in 1983-84 and the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1991-1992. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Allen Wood is author of many articles and chapters in philosophical journals and anthologies. The book-length publications he has authored include: Kant's Moral Religion (1970, reissued 2009), Kant's Rational Theology (1978, reissued 2009), Karl Marx (1981, second expanded edition 2004), Hegel's Ethical Thought (1990), Kant's Ethical Thought (1999), Unsettling Obligations (2002), Kant (2004) and Kantian Ethics (2008), The Free Development of Each: (2014), and co-authored with Dieter Schönecker, Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (Harvard University Press, 2015). (A German language version of this commentary has gone through four editions since 2002.) His most recent book is Fichte's Ethical Thought (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Books by Wood have appeared in Hebrew, Turkish, Portuguese, Iranian and Chinese translation. With Paul Guyer, Wood is co-general editor of the Cambridge Edition of Kant's Writings, for which he has edited, translated or otherwise contributed to six volumes. Among the other books Wood has edited are Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy (1984), Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1991), Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2002), Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (2010), and, with Songsuk Susan Hahn, the Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) (2012). He is on the editorial board of eight philosophy journals, six book series and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

At Indiana University Allen Wood has taught courses on the history of modern philosophy, modern political philosophy, Kant, Fichte and existentialism.

Reviews

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read Allen Wood's book Marx, which is the consummate introduction to Marx as a philosopher (not as an economist). I also knew Wood was a Kant scholar, so I decided to read this book alongside the Critique of Pure Reason.

Wood has a very rare and strange gift. He can simultaneously write for the layman, and the professional academic, at the same time. Most authors can only do one or the other, and sometimes they can do both, but never in the same work. Wood does both, simultaneously, both in Marx and in Kant.

I also want to point out that before reading the book I e-mailed Allen Wood, and he was unequivocally conducting his Kantian duty as a teacher. That is, he answered every question I had about his book, going into more depth than was needed, and did so quickly (I.E., 24 hour turnover). He even went into a side discussion about politics which was, at the very least, engaging.

Overall Wood is the ideal Kantian, both in praxis, and in authorship. Given his track record on Marx, and Kant, I imagine all his other books are equally laudable. Moreover, while this book is only around 170 pages, he manages to cover all of Kant's works, in a way that servers as a continual reference guide. Usually a book this short can only server as a bare bones layman introduction, but Wood is able to squeeze mountains of information into tiny sentences.

Finally, although he is the quintessential Kant scholar, he’s critical and fair. When Kant is wrong, he says so. And when a generous interpretation of Kant can be made – but it probably won’t be true to Kant’s personal views – he’ll say so again.

[Momina · Rating 4 out of 5]

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I think it would be a gross understatement to suggest that I merely enjoyed reading this book. But I can't say that I have been successfully initiated into Kant's world, though I have found the necessary footing I needed, and I have Allen to thank for that! Far more accessible than I had expected! And far more fascinating than I was led to believe! I liked the idea behind the natural teleology thingy that there's a purposiveness to the world and to human nature, that was cool. And I totally second the "unsociable sociability" thingy, I can totally dig that, and I really respect Herr Kant to insist that we battle the competitiveness that inherently exists between us, and to fulfill the rights we have upon each other, if not for grandiose reasons, but simply out of respect of our human dignity. You are an end in yourself, and I must treat you that way. I think that's really nice.

Anyway, following in Riku's footsteps, here's Ian's review of another book on Kant for anyone who is interested in a more detailed exploration of his world: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It gets rough, you surely feel lost sometimes, but it's worth it. For by the end, you feel your mind having been widened by several precious inches. And I think that's an absolutely sublime thing a book can do to you!

[Samana adnan]

على وجه الخصوص ، يجب تجنب الاقتراب من حياة كانط بروح عبادة الأبطال أو سيرة القديسين - كما لو أن اهتمامنا بأفكار الفيلسوف يتناسب أو يجب أن يكون متناسبًا مع إعجابنا بالمفكر كإنسان. إذا كان هناك أي قديسين أو أبطال حقيقيين من بين الشخصيات المهمة في تاريخ الفلسفة ، فمن الأفضل أن نتجاهل تمامًا بطولاتهم وقداستهم في دراسة أفكارهم الفلسفية.
إنه أمر غير صحيح وغير فلسفي تمامًا أن نبجل فلاسفة الماضي بوصفهم معلمين يجب أن نجلس تحت أقدامهم من أجل استيعاب حكمتهم. مثل هذا الموقف تجاه أي شخص آخر ، سواء أكان حيًا أم ميتًا ، يخون استعبادًا حقيرًا للعقل لا يتوافق مع ممارسة الفلسفة على الإطلاق.
في اعتقادي هذا الرأي ، بالمناسبة ، أنا أيضًا كانطًا جيدًا ، منذ أن اعتبر كانط ممارسة أولئك الذين وضعوا الآخرين كنماذج للتقليد فاسدة أخلاقياً ، تميل في وقت مبكر إلى إنتاج إما ازدراء الذات أو الحسد بدلاً من الفضيلة.
لكن هذا سبب إضافي لتطبيق وجهة نظر كانط حول هذه المسألة على كانط نفسه.
حتى وجهة النظر نفسها يجب ألا تُمنح أي مصداقية على الإطلاق لمجرد أن كانط اعتنقها ، ولكن يجب أن يتم الاحتفاظ بها فقط لأن التجربة تظهر أنها صحيحة - وصحيحة حتى بالنسبة لكانط نفسه.
ألين دبليو وود ، كانط
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[Evan Mckibbin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview of Kant's major contributions to philosophy, from metaphysics to the political. This works as a companion to someone reading Kant for the first time as well as an accessible read for the simply curious.

[Alireza Saramad]

معذرت میخوام، من شاشیدم تو این کتاب
وقتم تلف شد، احوالاتم هم تحت تاثیر بد بودنش قرار گرفت. ترجمه کار هر بی‌طهارتی نیست والا.
حالا خوبه کانته، قوادها طوری در هاله ای از پیچک می پیچند حرف ها را که چیزهایی که میدانی را هم از رویش میخوانی نمی فهمی

از بدخوانی کتاب که بگذریم، خیلی سطحی توضیح داده، و در حد یک اینتروداکشن است به زور و لطف. برای کسی که میداند کانت داشت چکار میکرد و میخواهد بداند دقیقا چطور اینکار را کرد بی ارزش است

[Lingui5t · Rating 2 out of 5]

The prose is atrocious (example below), and the sentence structure quite convoluted throughout. Not a good introduction to Kant.

In this way, Kant is seen as leading out of eighteenth-century aesthetics, which generally viewed beauty generally and art in particular in terms of their functions in moral psychology and moral education, and into a new, more modern and liberated aesthetics in which art is seen as having its own independent function in human life apart from morality or any other goodness-oriented enterprise.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dense, daunting, and difficult. I don't recommend it to readers lacking familiarity with the topic.

[Robin Meadows]

OMG Kant is hard, so very hard that even Allen Wood' lucid prose and painstaking exposition of Kant's philosophy are not enough to help me follow it. DNF shortly after arriving at this sentence early in the second chapter: "A principle such as 'Every change has a cause', for example, is synthetic, connecting the concept of the subject to the predicate lying outside the subject concept, so that the judgment extends or amplifies our cognition of the objects falling under the subject concept."

That said, I loved the introduction as well as the initial chapter on Kant's life and works. Wood is a wonderful writer and I can tell he's being very, very clear when he explains Kant's philosophy. But that's still too complex for me...so I will switch to Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton. I have read and enjoyed several selections in this Oxford University Press series that is written by experts for nonexperts (like me).

[Shayan Hamraz · Rating 4 out of 5]

واسه آشنایی خوبه. مخصوصا بخش زندگی‌نامه‌ش

[Navid · Rating 3 out of 5]

not an unbiased review. the Author keeps arguing with hypothetical colleagues instead of teaching Kant

[Igor Capelari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Um comentário melhor por sua abrangencia do que por sua profundidade. São tratados todos os aspéctos da filosofia do Kant. Desde as três Críticas até a antropologia. Um ótimo livro para quem quer conhecer Kant em seus aspectos menos conhecidos. Adorei a abordagem do autor para com os aspectos mais polemicos do filósofo. Todos os pontos são discutidos com bastante caridade. Para quem busca uma leitura aprofundada das Críticas, outro livro talvez seja melhor.

[Işıkgün Akfırat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kant'ı anlamaya çalışıyor ve saçınızı başınızı yolacak gibi oluyorsanız, bu kitaptan yardım almanızı öneririm. Hala çok kolay anlaşıldığı söylenemez ama pek çok Kant pasajı bu kitap eşliğinde okuyunca daha anlaşılır ve bir bağlam içerisine oturur hale gelecektir.

Allen Wood, Kant'ın en itibarlı İngilizce çevirmenlerinden birisi. Aynı zamanda önde gelen Kant akademisyenlerinden. Son derece kapsamlı bir sistemi bence gayet iyi ve olabildiğince anlaşılır özetlemiş. Her bölümün sonunda ileri okumalar önermesi de cabası.

Aliye Kovanlıkaya hocamızın çevirisini özellikle beğendim. Yalnız keşke bir kavram sözlüğü de ekleseymiş. Tezahür, müdrike gibi kelime tercihlerini isabetli buluyorum ancak bazen İngilizce orijinalinde neye tekabül ettiği unutuluyor. Farklı bağlamlarda farklı şekilde çevrildiği not edilerek Almanca, İngilizce ve Türkçe kavram karşılıklarını vermek faydalı olacaktır.