Contents
Acknowledgments page ix
Cast of Characters xi
Chronology of Kant's
Life and Works xv
Prologue i1 Childhood and Early Youth (1724-1740) 24
2 Student and Private Teacher (1740-1755) 61
3 The Elegant Magister (1755—1764) 100
4 A Palingenesis and Its Consequences
(1764-1769) 144
5 Silent Years (1770-1780) 188
6 "All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics
(1780-1784) 238
7 Founder of a Metaphysics of Morals
(1784-1787) 277
8 Problems with Religion and Politics
(1788-1795) 329
9 The Old Man (1796-1804) 386
Notes 423
Works Cited 511
Index 531vii