Böcker av Ryan Kemp

In his late work, Kant struggles to answer a straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult, question: how is radical conversion possible? This book examines how this question gets taken up by Kant¿s philosophical heirs: Schelling, Fichte, Hegel and Kierkegaard.

In his late work, Kant struggles to answer a straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult, question: how is radical conversion possible? This book examines how this question gets taken up by Kant's philosophical heirs: Schelling, Fichte, Hegel and Kierkegaard.

The heart of the book is a description of addiction deepened by existential-phenomenological theory. This description is then used to understand the historical emergence of addiction, its socio-political manifestation and also the crucial issue of how to clinically treat the addict-subject.