Karl Ameriks explores the distinctive features of Kant's notion of what it is for us to be a subject, and examines the ways in which many of us have been influenced by Kant's philosophy and its indirect effect on our self-conception.

• Part I: Kant


• 1: Introduction to an Extended Era


• 2: On the Many Senses of 'Self-Determination'


• 3: From A to B: On 'Critique and Morals'


• 4: Revisiting Freedom as Autonomy


• 5: Once Again: The End of All Things


• 6: Vindicating Autonomy: Kant, Sartre, and O'Neill


• 7: On Universality, Necessity, and Law in General in Kant


• 8: Prauss and Kant's Three Unities: Subject, Object, and Subject and Object Together


• Part II: Successors


• 9: Some Persistent Presumptions of Hegelian Anti-Subjectivism


• 10: History, Idealism, and Schelling


• 11: History, Succession, and German Romanticism


• 12: Hölderlin's Kantian Path


• 13: On Some Reactions to 'Kant's Tragic Problem'


• 14: The Historical Turn and Late Modernity


• 15: Beyond the Living and the Dead: On Post-Kantian Philosophy as Historical Appropriation

Karl Ameriks is the McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in the history of modern philosophy, continental philosophy, and modern German philosophy. Much of his research is dedicated to the study of Immanuel Kant about whom he has published multiple books, including Kant's Elliptical Path (Oxford 2012) and Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy (Cambridge 2009). He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Journal of the History of Philosophy and on the editorial boards of Critical Horizons, Kant Yearbook, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, and Philosophisches Jahrbuch.