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This book grew out of over a decade of intermittent Kant studies. As a young undergraduate in Jerusalem, then under strong Neo-Kantian influence, I was led to think that Kant had spelled the doom of all metaphysics, and that his contribution to ethics lay in his formal, all too formal, doctrine of the categorical imperative. As for his essay on history, if they deserved attention at all, they were to be deemed incompatible with the system.

"If Yovel's book shocks some people's preconceived ideas of Kant, that is all to the good: most philosophers have continued far too long to neglect Kant's important post-critical writings in interpreting Kant. Yovel's scholarship is sound, and this book fills a real need for a more rounded picture of Kant's ethics in its relationship to the Enlightenment."--Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

Yirmiahu Yovel

Yirmiyahu Yovel, Ph.D., Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1968, is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and chairman of the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute. He has written widely on philosophy and history, and his books include "Spinoza and Other Heretics" (Princeton); "Kant and the Philosophy of History" (Princeton); and "Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews.

His Recent Publications:

Hegel's Preface to the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (translation and introduction, 2005)

Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews (1998)

Commentary to Hegel's Preface to The Phenomenology of the Spirit (1996, in Hebrew)

God and Nature: Spinoza's Metaphysics (editor, 1991)

Spinoza and Other Heretics (1989)

Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker (editor, 1986)

Kant and the Philosophy of History (1980)