{"product_id":"before-tomorrow-epigenesis-and-rationality-paperback","title":"Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Malabou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Shread\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant�s Critique of Pure Reason, are now being called into question: the finitude of the subject, the phenomenal given, a priori synthesis. Relinquish the transcendental: such is the imperative of postcritical thinking in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Questions that we no longer thought it possible to ask now reemerge with renewed vigor: can Kant really maintain the difference between a priori and innate? Can he deduce, rather than impose, the categories, or justify the necessity of nature? Recent research into brain development aggravates these suspicions, which measure transcendental idealism against the thesis of a biological origin for cognitive processes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her important new book Catherine Malabou lays out Kant�s response to his posterity. True to its subject, the book evolves as an epigenesis - the differentiated growth of the embryo - for, as those who know how to read critical philosophy affirm, this is the very life of the transcendental and contains the promise of its transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Malabou\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131903152263,"sku":"9780745691510","price":45.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a446dbc9bf4607efe80e963f5f2533c6.webp?v=1732622244","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/before-tomorrow-epigenesis-and-rationality-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}