Palmquist, S: Kant and Mysticism

By Stephen R. Palmquist

Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant's early criticism of Swedenborg's mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason's light.

PrefaceIntroduction: The Problem of Mystical Experience in KantPart ISwedenborg's Influence on Kant's Critical AwakeningChapter 1 - The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Kant's Awakening from Dogmatic SlumberChapter 2 - The Impact of Swedenborg's Mysticism on Kant's Metaphysical DreamsChapter 3 - Kant's Awakening: The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Critical MysticismChapter 4 - Kant's Metaphysical Dream: A System of Critical PhilosophyPart IIKant's Critical Philosophy as a Critique of MysticismChapter 5 - Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium?Chapter 6 - Kant's Critique of Delirious MysticismChapter 7 - Critical Mysticism as Immediate Experience of the MoralChapter 8 - Key Metaphors Guiding Kant's Critical MysticismPart IIIThe Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical MysticismChapter 9 - Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced?Chapter 10 - The Categorical Imperative as the Voice of GodChapter 11 - Matter's Living Force as Immediate Experience of the WorldChapter 12 - The Highest Purpose of Philosophy as Exhibiting the God-ManConclusion - Kantian Mysticism for the Twenty-First Century