Kant's Reform of Metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered by Karin de Boer

Looking back at the reception of Kant's philosophy in the twentieth century, it is striking to see how many philosophers tried to enlist Kant in their campaigns to "overcome" and "eliminate" metaphysics. Twentieth-century Kant scholars often shared their contemporaries' hostility to metaphysics, especially the "dogmatic" rationalism of Leibniz and Wolff. These attitudes can still be found within the discipline and among Kant scholars, but much has changed in the last thirty years. Metaphysics has been revived as a central part of both analytic and continental philosophy. And historical, contextualist Kant scholarship has established that there are important continuities between Kant and his rationalist...