![]() The effect is that the world can be said to be doubled, in the paradoxical sense that true existence at the same time becomes something wholly undefined, abstract and ethereal, while conversely what we definitely know, positive existence, is turned into the mere delusion of appearances, the mere interconnection of the phenomena at our disposition. His duality in the concept of things inevitably leads to certain difficulties, huge difficulties, in fact, for the theory of cognition. Booth correctly turns to Adorno’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as one of the more lucid texts by Adorno to elucidate Hegel’s critique using the Newtonian notion of force in physics to dissolve the contradiction. While Booth focuses on Kant and Hegel, he cites Adorno and Heidegger in order to emphasize the Kantian dilemma in contemporary continental philosophy and to show the problems of modern philosophy in Kant as a result. ![]() Thus, a dichotomy is set up between the appearance and the essence of reality, which will turn out to be one of Hegel’s critiques of Kant. The ideas of nature, freedom, and the self are the three axes in which Kant’s normative system operates although the noumena, and reality in and of itself, exists, the phenomena of human understanding is only partial insomuch as it structures reality itself. The sections on “Perception” and “Force” specifically involve Kant’s and Hegel’s analyses of the Newtonian notion of force and its relation to the human faculty of perception and the metaphysics of social order. Within this structure, the purpose of the article is, first of all, to clarify Kant’s position regarding the necessity of maintaining the possibility of human freedom and the existence of an autonomous self in philosophy as a means by which to preserve the fundamentals of human existence and philosophy itself. Perception, Understanding, and the Supersensible World The steps of the argument run as follows: While the article appears to be an exposition of the contradiction of Kant’s noumena and its critique in Hegel, Booth turns to Adorno and Heidegger to accentuate the relevance of Kant’s modern project of philosophy and Hegel’s critique. Today, Jack Robert Edmunds-Coopey looks at Damien Booth’s “Hegel’s Philosophy of Physics and Kant’s Noumena” from Telos 179 (Summer 2017).ĭamien Booth’s article “Hegel’s Philosophy of Physics and Kant’s Noumena” addresses Hegel’s critique of Kant concerning the positing of the noumena, the realm beyond the sensible, which for Hegel results in entanglements and contradiction, Kantian antinomies that the dialectic could resolve. As an occasional feature on TELOSscope, we highlight a past Telos article whose critical insights continue to illuminate our thinking and challenge our assumptions.
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