Kant's organicism : epigenesis and the development of critical philosophy / Jennifer Mensch.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]

xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.

Introduction: Kant's organicism -- Generation and the task of classification -- Buffon's natural history and the founding of organicism -- Kant and the problem of origin -- Kant's eclecticism -- The rebirth of metaphysics -- From the unity of reason to the unity of race -- Empirical psychology in Tetens and Kant -- Kant's architectonic: system and organism in the Critique of pure reason.