THE YEAR OF KANT

TRANSCENDENTAL CONSTITUTION OF WORLD AND EGO OBSERVATIONS ON HEIDEGGER’S PERCEPTION OF KANT

Immediately after his ultimately fragmented main work “Being and Time” (1927), Heidegger had a phase of intensive engagement with Kant, especially his main work “Critique of Pure Reason” (1781). Kant’s topos of the “metaphysics of metaphysics” thus plays a cen...

THEORY OF COGNITION AND PRACTICAL INTEREST IN KANT: ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN APPEARANCE AND THING IN ITSLEF

The article examines the significance of the distinction between phenomena and things in themselves for the foundation of Kantian practical reason. It holds that this distinction acquires its full meaning and the entire gamut of its validity only in the sphere...

BETWEEN DIALECTICS AND CRITICISM: KANT’S PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT

The article presents a unique interpretation of Kant’s philosophical development by exploring the relationship between dialectics and criticism. The conceptual analysis of peculiar propositions in some of the philosopher’s early writings reveals essential dial...

THE CONCEPT OF TRANSCENDENTAL APPERCEPTION AND ITS ROLE IN THE SECOND EDITION OF KANT’S TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION

The aim of this article is to trace the meaning that Immanuel Kant assigns to the concept of transcendental apperception and to present its role in the second edition of the Transcendental Deduction in his Critique of Pure Reason. It will be shown that the doc...

KANT’S IMPORTANCE FOR EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY. THE PERSPECTIVE OF HERMENEUTIC PHILOSOPHY

The article is a short presentation and critical evaluation of the main aspects of Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy. It focuses on ontological consequences of the so-called Copernican turn that places man in a self-created, phenomenal world, cutting...

KANT’S AESTHETICS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SENSORY STUDIES

This article gives a synopsis of one of the fastest expanding in the last few decades interdisciplinary scientific fields keeping aesthetic problems and questions in its core, that of sensory studies, in order to sift out and systematize their interpretation o...

VIRTUALISTIC TRANSCENDENTALISM AS A CONCEPT OF SYSTEMATIC CRITICAL METAPHYSICS. THE PENTALOGY OF VALENTIN KANAWROW

Valentin Kanawrow develops his system of critical metaphysics across five systematically linked monographs. The core of this pentalogy is the original concept of virtualistic transcendentalism. Kanawrow creates a new metaphysical system as a continuation and r...

TWO THEORETICAL SYMPOSIA IN BULGARIA DEDICATED TO THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF IMMANUEL KANT