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Dreams of a Spirit-Seer and Kant’s Critical Method: Comments on Stephen R. Palmquist’s Kant and Mysticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

J. Colin McQuillan
J. Colin McQuillan*
Affiliation:
St Mary’s University, San Antonio
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Abstract

In his new book, Kant and Mysticism, Stephen Palmquist argues that Kant had already formulated his critical method by the mid-1760s and that it emerged from his reflections on Swedenborg’s mystical visions. In order to evaluate these claims, I consider Kant’s correspondence with Charlotte von Knobloch and Moses Mendelssohn before and after the publication of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer; the context in which Kant published Dreams; and the method he employs when he discusses Swedenborg’s visions in that work. I conclude that Kant’s critical method was not well-formed during the 1760s and did not emerge from Kant’s reflections on Swedenborg.

Keywords

Immanuel KantEmanuel SwedenborgDreams of a Spirit-Seermethod
Type
Author Meets Critic
Information
Kantian Review , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 113 - 117
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Kantian Review

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