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In recent years a host of editions, translations, monographs, and articles have introduced Anglo-American readers to a Kant different from the anti-metaphysical epistemologist and rigorous ethicist of earlier scholarship. Kant has emerged as a pragmatic anthropologist, a physical geographer, and a natural historian. Jennifer Mensch's book seeks to unify the two pictures of Kant by tracking the formative background of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's own original account of the biological development of individuals and species. Her provocative epigenesist reading challenges the distinction between matters of fact ( quid facti ) and grounds of validity ( quid iuris ) in Kant's account of a priori knowledge. --Gunter Zoller, University of Munich and University of Bologna

A striking and radical rereading of the first Critique through the concept of 'epigenesis.'... Mensch's reading is bold and innovative, it deserves to be debated at length by Kant scholars. (Radical Philosophy Review)

"""A striking and radical rereading of the first Critique through the concept of 'epigenesis.'... Mensch's reading is bold and innovative, it deserves to be debated at length by Kant scholars."" (Radical Philosophy Review)"

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Jennifer Mensch teaches philosophy and the history of science and medicine at the Pennsylvania State University.

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