BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kant gives a simplified account of the antinomy in
Prolegomena (1783), §§50-54. The
most extensive study of
the antinomy is Heinz Heimsoeth's Transzendentale Dialek-
tik, Part II: Vierfache
Vernunftantinomie (Berlin, 1967). In
English, the
authoritative (but very unsympathetic and
critical) study is Norman
Kemp Smith's Commentary to
Kant's Critique of
Practical Reason (London, 1918; 2nd ed.,
1923), pp. 378-521.
Detailed evaluations of the antinomy in the spirit of the
antepenultimate paragraph of this article are in P. F.
Strawson's The Bounds of Sense (London, 1967), pp.
176-206,
and (chosen from a very large periodical literature)
M. S. Gram's
“Kant's First Antinomy,” The Monist,
51
(1967), 499-518.
On the origin of Kant's theory of antinomy, see: Karl
Siegel,
“Kant's Antinomienlehre im Lichte der Inaugural-
dissertation,” Kant-Studien,
30 (1925), 67-86; L. Robinson,
“Contributions à l'histoire de l'évolution
philosophique de
Kant,” Revue de
Métaphysique et de Morale,
31 (1924),
268-353, especially 308-39; and reply
by H. J. de
Vleeschauwer, “Les antinomies kantiennes et la
Clavis
universalis d'Arthur
Collier,” Mind,
47 (1933), 303-20; Joong
Fang, Das Antinomienproblem im Entstehungsgang der
Transzendentalphilosophie (Mainz Diss., 1960); and
Norbert
Hinske, “Kant's Begriff der Antinomie und die
Etappen
seiner Ausarbeitung,” Kant-Studien,
56 (1966), 485-96.
On the antinomies in the later Critiques, see L. W. Beck,
A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical
Reason
(Chicago, 1962), Ch. 13, and H. W. Cassirer, A Commentary
on Kant's Critique of Judgment
(London, 1938).
On Crusius as an antinomic thinker with resemblances
to and influence
upon Kant, see Heimsoeth's Studien zur
Philosophie
Immanuel Kants (Cologne, 1956), Ch. 3, and
Beck's Early German Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.,
1969),
Ch. 16.
On Hegel as an elaborator and critic of Kant's theory
of antinomy see M.
Gueroult, “Le jugement de Hegel sur
l'antithétique
de la raison pure,” Revue de
Métaphysique
et de Morale,
38 (1931), 413-39.
LEWIS WHITE BECK
[See also Causation, Final Causes; Cosmology; Free Will
and
Determinism;
God; Happiness and Pleasure; Hegelian;
Infinity; Metaphor; Rationality.]
