"Makkreel’s study offers a comprehensive interpretation of Kant’s critical philosophy, focusing on the distinction and interaction between a cosmical approach to philosophy and the cosmopolitan aims of philosophy in human community." —CHOICE
“Building on his influential earlier work on Kant’s interpretive notion of judgment, Makkreel’s latest book makes a convincing case that Kant’s orientational concern with an encompassing worldview is a surprisingly helpful key for understanding the structure of the Critical philosophy as a whole. With this point in view, Makkreel uncovers numerous significant connections between a large number of texts that span Kant's career, and he sheds light on them in an original way by paying close attention to Kant's precise terminology.” —Karl Ameriks, author of Kantian Subjects: Critical Philosophy and Late Modernity— -
"Rudolf Makkreel explores Kant’s rich discussions of ways in which we orient ourselves in the physical and the human worlds. He writes illuminatingly about Kant’s late philosophy, and in particular about his division of judgements about the world into determinant judgements that subsume cases, and reflective judgements that interpret them. Makkreel shows that, far from peddling one more 'empty formalism,' Kant allows for more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in far too many accounts of his philosophy." —Onora O’Neill author of From Principles to Practice: Normativity and Judgement in Ethics and Politics— -
“Makkreel has long been in the forefront of the movement to grasp Kant not as the philosopher simply of architectonic certainties but of acumen for contingencies, a Kant for humans in a world that is never a matter of pure reason alone, yet remains amenable to reflective negotiation. With this new work, he offers us a sweeping conspectus of Kant’s philosophical enterprise as both pragmatic and robust.” —John Zammito, author of Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology
“Kant’s Worldview offers something few, if any, books on Kant do: an overarching and expansive account of Kant’s philosophy that paints a comprehensive picture of the human being. It is exactly the kind of book philosophy needs—it makes a sweeping case for Kant’s vision of human life. The culminating discussion of the book on cosmopolitanism and the cosmic is genuinely revolutionary.” —Kristi Sweet, author of Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History— -