The Post-Critical Kant: Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus Postumum

In this book, Bryan Wesley Hall breaks new ground in Kant scholarship, exploring the gap in Kants Critical philosophy in relation to his post-Critical work by turning to Kants final, unpublished work, the so-called Opus Postumum. This volume provides a powerful alternative to all current interpretations of the Opus Postumum, arguing that Kants transition project is best seen as the post-Critical culmination of his Critical philosophy. Hall carefully examines the deep connections between the Opus Postumum and the view Kant develops in the Critique of Pure Reason, to suggest that properly understanding the post-Critical Kant will significantly revise our view of Kants Critical period.

"Halls study offers a very clear, rigorous, stimulating and original attempt to reconstruct the systematic continuity between Kants critical and post-critical philosophy, rightly emphasizing the central meaning of the a priori concept of the ether in OP [Opus Postumum]." - Giovanni Pietro Basile, Hochschule für Philosophie München